User blog comment:Ty Rezac/my idea on strongest countries/@comment-30228680-20120225233043/@comment-1870785-20120226065034

Large land mass, population and economy do NOT mean Brazil is a top-ten.

A huge chunk of their economy is tourism, followed by some auto manufacturing and sugarcane, corn and whatnot. Most of the fancy stuff is really made by drug traffickers who are building hotels and malls everywhere as part of money laundering schemes.

A lot of this has to do with the fact that the White Euro-Brazilians are usually well off and control most of everything in the country while the Mulattos are usually the sugarcane pickers and the maids and whatnot (same everywhere in South America but still.)

The rich millionaires who monopolize the whole country make it seem more powerful that it really is when really its like a giant Compton that takes up half a continent.