Brazilian Federation

The Brazilian Federation, or simply Brazil, is a Democratic Republic located in South America. It is the largest and most populated country in South America, having plentiful resources and being a very rich country. Brazil is a very diverse country, having many diverse groups inside it's nation, black and brown brazilians, white brazilians, asian brazilians, indigenous brazilians, etc, all legacies from it's portuguese colonization. The country's biggest religion by far is catholicism, also a colonial legacy.

Brazil is made of 20 states, with the most populated being Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo closely behind. Some states like Guiana have certain degrees of autonomy, and each state is to some degree autonomous, with each having their ow government and laws. The states are represented through the Brazilian congress, where federal legislation is created. Brazil has multi-party sistem, but today it's biggest political party in control of congress is the Brazilian Labourer's party.

Brazil is part of several economic and military treaties, mainly in South America, such as Unasil, a political and economic bloc made of Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and New Granada. Brazil did not establish many diplomatic relations outside of it's continent for some time, but during and after the Great War, Brazil established itslef as one of the main allied powers, and ended up gaining much more international importance because of it's important role on the South American front and it's participation on the peace settlement. Brazil also became a founding member of the Community of the United Nations, and gained a seat in the UN security council, together with the USA, France, Britain and Eurasia. Brazil's biggest trade partners are the USA, Peru, New Granada, Portugal, Japan and South Africa.

Brazil was a strictly pacifist nation for most of it's existence, only using it's army for internal duties and only going to war if it was attacked first. However, a wave of tension in the Paraná river basin influenced the brazilian leadership to start investing more into it's military, modernizing it's army and buying high-quality equipment. Military production ramped up even more with it's entry into the Great War, as it helped with supplies to the allies and in the African and Italian fronts, and of course, the South American front, when it fought Argentina and it's puppets for years. With the allied victory, Brazil established itself as an inportant military and diplomatic powerhouse.

Brazil was a portuguese colony until 1808, when the portuguese court fled to Rio during the Napoleonic Wars. The portuguese monarchy briefly established an independent government in exile in Brazil, the Confedereation of Brazil, a monarchy. That planted the seeds of the independence movements, and A revolutionary war broke out, ending with the brazilian victory and independence. The country then went through a turbulent period, as it tried industrializing and abolishing slavery, but after many revolts, the country ended up modernizing and stabilizing, and remained in relative isolation, not involving itself in conflict for a long time (except for the Paraguay war), up until it's participation in the Great War, where it joined the allies and contributed to it's victory, gaining it's modern borders at the treaty of Copenhagen.

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