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Exploring a fake city’s fake history

Grant St. Clair
Mar 13, 2026
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GTA VI

Granted, Grand Theft Auto V‘s city of Los Santos doesn’t actually have a history. It didn’t exist before September 2013, after all, despite Rockstar’s painstaking attempt to convince you otherwise through their trademark detailed world design. While it’s obviously based on the real-life Los Angeles, it comes with a centuries-long invented history …

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