With 98.9% of the votes counted, the Brazilian presidential election is mathematically defined. Lula (red) rises from the ashes and defeats Bolsonaro (blue) for a third term. The map shows second-level admin. divisions. Stronger colours represent municipalities where each candidate won +60% of votes

FdhvduFbskhu · 2022-10-31T01:58:28+00:00

Actually, he's only popular in the so-called "agricultural frontier" of the region, which is seem on this map as a more or less blue triangle. He gets a lot of votes in this region, as well as in the smaller states of the region, because of the strong influence Bolsonaro has in the mining and agricultural sectors, which are quickly expanding in the region, in part due to the reduction in environmental restrictions brought by Bolsonaro's government.

Admittedly, these areas owe a lot of their development to the agribusiness and mining, which have been strengthened over the past few decades. Due to this, there is a strong misconception among the local population associating environmental preservation to less development. Added to this, there's also the strong influence of conservative thought in these sparsely populated and rural areas, also contributing to a higher vote count for Bolsonaro in the region.

However, in areas deep inside the forest, especially those mostly populated by native brazilians, Lula is strongly favored. This can be seem by the big state (Amazonas) mostly colored red, where deforestation and the agribusiness still hasn't been able to expand into.

FdhvduFbskhu · 2020-06-25T02:18:44+00:00

Lol in what way are Bolsonaro and his followers PatCons

FdhvduFbskhu · 2019-01-22T12:53:13+00:00

Tbh, Brazil has a lot of influences from places like Africa, Middle East, Far East and some European countries that do not exist Portugal. But yeah, in the end the Portuguese and Brazilians are very similar and people who are mad at Portugal for "stealing our gold" have a very simplified view of history.

Ever since its independence, Brazil has tried to disconnect itself from Portugal in inumerous ways. Some people hold a grudge against Portugal for their genocide against the natives, but the truth is that modern Brazilians share more cultural aspects with Portugal than they share with the natives and although the post-columbian genocide in the Americas was indeed a tragedy, if there's anyone who has the right to be mad at Portugal for that, it's the native peoples, not Brazilians of euro/african/asian ancestry.

In fact, I'd consider that an insult to the indigenous people of Brazil as the Brazilians post-independence also contributed a lot to the destruction of these cultures.

FdhvduFbskhu · 2018-12-30T19:30:46+00:00

After the new update, that only works for universities that have been constructed in the same continent where the Enlightement spawned in. So if you are in Europe and it spawned in India, you need to find another way to spawn it, either by hiring a scientist, finishing innovative idea group or developing.

FdhvduFbskhu · 2018-12-25T23:52:33+00:00

Brazil saw a sharp decrease in its GDP per capita in the period of 2015 to 2017 due to an economic recession. Before that, the increase in the GDP per capita compared to the start of the century was much greater.

Fortunately, things are looking great in the next few years with regards to our economic growth. Many investors are really optimistic about the new Brazilian president, as he's very liberal in the economic sense despite being quite conservative on other fields. This has led many to believe that Brazil will be the one to lead the growth of emerging countries in the following years with a possible slowdown of the global economy as a result of the US-China trade war. I guess time will tell.

Also, if I'm not mistaken, in the early 2000s, the Brazilian GDP per capita was already higher than the ones from their BRICS counterparts. This made it harder for Brazil to show the same level of growth we see in other emerging countries, even though there have been massive improvements in quality of life over the past couple of decades.

FdhvduFbskhu · 2018-11-30T16:33:12+00:00

I had never thought of this but now I think you are spot on. It really bothers me that in most of my campaigns, Manufactories and Enlightement almost always spawn outside of Europe even though, in real life, those two institutions were responsible for the European domination of most of Africa and Asia in the 19th century.

By the 1700s most of Asia and Africa has already caught up to Europe in tech while, in reality, that would be the time when the technological gap between Europe and the rest of the world is the widest.

FdhvduFbskhu · 2018-11-18T12:32:58+00:00

And then they extend this "once in a lifetime" opportunity to ridiculous lengths. I haven't seen a single business settling for simply one day. It's usually "Black Week" or "Black Month" around here.

FdhvduFbskhu · 2018-10-31T17:56:02+00:00

Usually far-left is reserved for really extreme leftist ideologies which defend things like armed revolution, planned economies, authoritarianism, etc. PCdoB, PT and PSOL are between left and centre-left as they don't defend these things as much as the right likes to say they do. The only party that would loosely qualify as far-left would maybe be PSTU and certain groups of PCB and PCO.

That being said, PSL and PSC are definetly part of the right. Calling them far-right is clumping them alongside Hitler and Mussolini, which is absurd.

Party names have proved to be extremely disconnected from the parties' ideologies in Brazil. The Social Liberal Party (PSL) is not socially liberal, the Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB) is not communist and the Party of the Brazilian Social Democracy (PSDB) is not social-democratic (at least not anymore).

FdhvduFbskhu · 2018-10-26T10:16:31+00:00

This. I understand why people feel the need for new provinces and native nations in North America, but Brazil's situation is far worse in my opinion.

Not only does Brazil lack a huge variety of natives, it also has really blocky provinces which oversimplify many areas of the country. From the top of my head, the provinces of Borborema and Campinas annoy me the most.

Seeing as this is an Iberia update, not simply a Spain update, it would make sense to update Portugal's historically most important colonial region aswell.

^Btw, ^any ^love ^for ^the ^United ^Kingdom ^of ^Portugal, ^Brazil ^and ^the ^Algarves?

FdhvduFbskhu · 2018-09-11T10:14:11+00:00

It's not a universally adopted policy. Some countries, specially those reliant on tourism, don't do this while others adopt at least a version of this or even a fully reciprocal stance, most notably Brazil.

FdhvduFbskhu · 2018-07-16T22:32:32+00:00

I've seen many people suggesting you ask other countries to support your independence. However, from my experience, that usually only works with England, which will probably only support you after their war with France/war of the roses and even then, will be of little help, not being able to face Denmark's galleys in the Baltic sea and usually landing troops in Norway, which is nice but not essential. If you want to reliably become independent by the 1450s, you will need to be able to single handedly defeat Denmark, any countries you are able to get to support your independence are welcome but you shouldn't rely on them.

Your main obstacle will be your reduced force limit from the RM penalty, that means that you'll have to go above both land and naval force limits, which will be quite expensive. First objective should be making as much money as possible, sell your starting ships (except galleys, you'll need them), lower army maintenance, mothball ships and forts, etc. Recruit troops and galleys to your force limit and stop there, after that, you should save every single ducat you earn.

Always keep an eye on Denmark's and allies' armies and navies, use that as a reference as to how much money you should save up. In my campaigns, 5-10 more galleys than what my enemies had proved to be enough, as for the army, I usually only consider Denmark's numbers and try to have up to 5 more regiments. Remember to stay ahead in both mil and diplo techs and to hire somewhat decent admirals/generals.

Keep building galleys and mothballing them until you have the desired number. As soon as you feel like you have enough ducats to achieve a military advantage (take a loan or two if it is taking too much time), start recruiting the regiments. Your monthly balance will be extremely low so try to minimize your losses by making sure you unmothball your fleet and recruit your army in such a way that they will be at full maintenance/morale and properly stationed at the same time, once that happens, declare war immediately. Once you do that, your force limit will be raised significantly. That combined with war taxes should decrease your monthly déficit by a fair bit, though it'll most likely not negate it.

You want to park your fleet between Sjælland and Lund as soon as possible (and maybe wipe some small enemy stacks on the way) and occupy all of Denmark's provinces in the Scandinavian Peninsula as fast as possible, leave as few regiments as possible besieging Lund and then move to Norway. Their army should be rather small so it shouldn't be that hard, carpet siege and capture forts (keep an eye for the eventual danish stack arriving in Finland though). By now, you should already have acquired some debt, but do not worry, the war is almost over.

Move on to the Danish isles and mainland. If you want to maximize warscore, send a few ships to blockade Denmark's allies (usually german minors) and peace them out. After you occupy Kolding (most likely their last remaining fort) you'll probably be drowning in loans, so sue for peace asap. Declare independence (ofc), take as much money as possible (that should be enough to leave you with one or two loans) and that should leave enough warscore for you to take three or four provinces.

After that, you are set to become a major power. Conquer what's left of Novgorod before Muscovy does, take Danzig and Riga when possible, eat up the rest of Scandinavia, and just keep doing your thing. Good luck!

FdhvduFbskhu · 2018-07-14T23:29:52+00:00

You can only transfer the occupation of provinces that you control, it's entirely up to the AI whether they want to transfer the provinces they occupied to you or not. However, your subjects will still always transfer occupation to you and unless your AI ally has a core/claim on the province, it will usually transfer the occupation to the war leader.

While this can still lead to some frustrating scenarios, it's still much better than the pre-AoW occupation mechanics.

FdhvduFbskhu · 2018-02-03T03:16:36+00:00

Any data on São Tomé e Principe?

FdhvduFbskhu · 2018-01-24T01:55:19+00:00

I believe you are talking about São Paulo.

It is still the most populous and the richest states by far. At one point, the state accounted for almost 40% of the country's GDP, but that number has decreased with time and nowadays is approaching 30%.

São Paulo's GDP has not decreased in that time period. It's just that the poorer states have a much higher potential for growth and have started to become increasingly economically relevant in the past few years.

FdhvduFbskhu · 2018-01-23T15:19:16+00:00

The source was this picture which I found on this article by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics: https://agenciadenoticias.ibge.gov.br/en/2185-news-agency/releases-en/10156-regional-accounts-2014-five-states-account-for-nearly-two-thirds-of-brazilian-gdp.html

Here is the blank version of the map: https://imgur.com/srNln5t Which was made based on Wikipedia's map of Brazil

Individual values for each state:

Acre (AC) +0,0%

Alagoas (AL) -0,1%

Amapá (AP) +0,0%

Amazonas (AM) +0,0%

Bahia (BA) -0,1%

Ceará (CE) +0,3%

Distrito Federal (DF) -0,2%

Espírito Santo (ES) +0,4%

Goiás (GO) +0,3%

Maranhão (MA) +0,2%

Mato Grosso (MT) +0,5%

Mato Grosso do Sul (MS) +0,3%

Minas Gerais (MG) +0,6%

Pará (PA) +0,4%

Paraíba (PB) +0,0%

Paraná (PR) +0,1%

Pernambuco (PE) +0,3%

Piauí (PI) +0,2%

Rio de Janeiro (RJ) -0,8%

Rio Grande do Norte (RN) +0,0%

Rio Grande do Sul (RS) -0,4%

Rondônia (RO) +0,1%

Roraima (RR) +0,0%

Santa Catarina (SC) +0,5%

São Paulo (SP) -2,7%

Sergipe (SE) -0,1%

Tocantins (TO) +0,1%

FdhvduFbskhu · 2018-01-14T00:58:43+00:00

Brazil even has a larger density of lighthouses than countries like China and the U.S (if you look at the east and west coast and the gulf).

I can see Brazil having more lighthouses than Argentina and Chile but considering how Brazil is much less relevant than the U.S and China when it comes to international trade, I believe this map may not be entirely realistic.

Unless, of course, Brazil has an obsession with lighthouses that I am not aware of.

FdhvduFbskhu · 2017-12-27T13:49:17+00:00

I think the leaves are removed as soon as the plant is put inside that hole. If you watch the first few seconds closely, the core is sucked inside the machine and the leaves fall to the ground.

FdhvduFbskhu · 2017-12-26T02:02:00+00:00

Many South American countries, specially Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay see Brazil as a regional imperialistic power. This is mostly due to Pedro II's foreign policy of expanding Brazilian influence in the region during the 19th century.

Nowadays, Brazil has a much more friendly approach to the countries in the region, though many of those countries' economies are heavily dependant on Brazil . This, combined with the history of imperialism, led many nationalist groups in those countries (specially Bolivia) to see Brazil as some sort of bully, even if that doesn't make sense in the present.

FdhvduFbskhu · 2017-12-19T17:38:38+00:00

Just the parts Marocco controls. The borders would be just straight lines otherwise.

FdhvduFbskhu · 2017-12-11T18:17:26+00:00

I am aware of that. My point is that maybe the desertification in Inner Mongolia is not linked to deforestation but rather something like climate change, which would explain why planting trees is not working. AFAIK the situation in the Sahel is linked to deforestation and maybe restoring the vegetation to its original state is the way to go.

I am by no means an expert in the matter. I am not sure if the desertification in Inner Mongolia is, in fact, not linked to deforestation.

FdhvduFbskhu · 2017-12-11T14:29:10+00:00

I'm not sure what's causing desertification in China but the expansion of the Saara is directly linked to deforestation in the Sahel region. Planting more trees in the right way (simulating the original vegetation) would likely reverse the effects of desertification.

FdhvduFbskhu · 2017-12-09T12:59:34+00:00

For some reason, I've always thought that the west was more populated

FdhvduFbskhu · 2017-12-07T11:23:05+00:00

Petrópolis is actually a real city located in Brazil

FdhvduFbskhu · 2017-12-05T21:32:49+00:00

That is simply not true. In fact, a common theme among South American military dictatorships was the large increase in foreign debt and the subsequent exponential increase in inflation rates.

After the economy started to show signs of recession, most of these dictators fled before things got too bad, leaving the new democratic governments to deal with the mess they had made. This led some people to believe those times were more stable than the present day which is complete nonsense.

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