Brazil (A Whole New World)

Kingdom of Brazil (Reino do Brasil in Portuguese) or just Brazil is a country located in South America, in the central

east region, it's a high development country that borders Patagonia in the south, Inca and Cerrado in the northwest, in the north with COE and with New Holland (Philipeia Province). It is the biggest country in South America but, after a lot of events, like the Regency period, it lost more than 50% of its territory.

The country is made up of 32 federal unities (31 states and one federal district, Green district, which is where the capital, Audrei, is located)

Etymology
The word Brazil comes from the Portuguese word for a type of tree called "Brazilwood" pau-Brasil in Portuguese. In Guarany, an indigenous language, The country is called Pindorama which means "Land of Palm Trees"

Portuguese Colonization
The Portuguese Empire on 22 of April 1500 claimed the land that is called Brazil nowadays. Pedro Alvares Cabral landed in the region near the city of Porto Seguro, on Bahia state, where he met indigenous tribes who spoke Guarani language. Though the first settlement was founded in 1532, colonization was effectively begun in 1534, when King of Portugal divided the territory into the fifteen private and autonomous Captaincy of Brazil

United Kingdom of Portugal
In the start of 19th century the Napoleonic troops and the Spanish threatened the mainland Portugal, making the Prince Regent João moving the Portuguese court to Brazil, establishing some of Brazil's first financial institutions, such as its local stock exchange, and its National Bank, additionally ending the Portuguese monopoly on Brazilian trade and opening Brazil to other nations. In 1809, in retaliation for being forced into exile, the Prince Regent ordered the invasion of French Guiana.

At the time, the Welsh had already taken the colony of Siwlleth, as the British had close ties with Portugal they gave to them the southern part of Cisplatina province as a gift.

The Independence process
The independence process was quite messy, one of the best-known movement is the movement of independence led by "Tiradentes"

After some tensions with the Portuguese Court about a try of making Brazil a colony again, The Brazilians refused to yield and Prince Pedro I stood with them, on September 7th the independence was declared and by him, and after that, he was nominated the King of Brazil

Regencial times
The regencial time was the most turbulent period of Brazil, it started when Pedro I left Brazil, going to Portugal, to take care of his father Joao VI. As Pedro II, his son was too young to reign, three regents were established to govern temporarily, but after it became a 1 regent dictatorship, which created a lot of problems

Contemporary era
Alike all the southern South América countries and New Holland, Brazil never had a period which was dominated by a dictatorship, it's been always, since independence, a Parliamentary constitutional monarchy.

World Wars
Brazil had a significant participation in both world wars.

World War I
Brazil joined the central power because of the marriage of Queen Elizabeth with Prince Henry of Prussia, as in this timeline the United States never existed, they never joined the Entente resulting in the win of the Central power, although countries like the Ottoman empire and the Austro-Hungry dissolved.

Brazil had around four million people of strength divided in all of the Fronts.

World War II
World War II happened with the rise of Fascism in the Ireland, Spain, France and Dixie, creating two sides: Germany, Brazil, United Kingdom, Pennsylvania and Virginia and the USSR to some extent made the allies and Ireland, France, Spain, Dixie and The Empire of Japan made the Axis.

Events like Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima and Nagasaki happened but in this timeline, Hawaii belongs to the British empire and the bombing of Hiroshima was made by Pennsylvania.

World War II was won by the allies but Brazil suffered consequences like the bombing of Rio de Janeiro in 20th of February 1940, leading to the death of 4000 people.

Change of the Capital
The capital change was proposed by King Leonard I after the Rio de Janeiro bombing in 1940, the King said that a place with a lot of people living in would draw too much attention to the city, making it more prone to accidents and attacks. The capital was moved to Audrei because it was protected by the mountains and far from the sea.

Economy
Brazil is the largest economy in South and Latin America, second largest in America, and fourth in the world in GDP according to 2017 estimations. Brazil has a mixed economy with abundant natural resources. Brazil has a neo-liberal economy having one of the highest indexes of economic freedom. The country has the fourth largest Nominal GDP and the ninth GDP Per Capita in the world.

Currency
The currency of Brazil is called Brazilian Krone or just krone (BRK kr)

Tourism
Brazil is one of the most visited countries in the world and tourism is one of the key elements of Brazil's economy. is the fourth most visited country in the world with around 66.8 millions of visitants. The most visited cities in Brazil are: Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Aspen, PR, São Paulo, SP, Foz do Iguaçu, IG, the capital Audrei and Phillipeia, PH.

There are dozens of UNESCO heritage sites, in the north, the beach culture is very present, especially in Phillipeia in the central region still has a bit of the beach culture but only in the summer, there are a lot of historical sites and cultural spots and the Cantareira, SP and São Pedro Valley, MG the two biggest technological points of Brazil and South America, in the west region most of the tourism comes from natural and heritage historical sites like the Pantanal, the Chaco and other places, in the center-south region the tourism is more diverse, in the Iguaçu state is located the FozDisney theme park and the Iguaçu Falls, in the Parana and District Green there are a lot of ski sites and mountainous cities, the biggest and most famous of them being Aspen and also a lot of hiking and climbing sites, in São Paulo do Sul and Santa Catarina the beach culture is very present although those states are cold in the winter, in South Region are smaller technopoles and nature tourism, the city of Gramado is very visited because of its Light Christmas and its chocolates. There also also a lot of vineyards and steakhouses that are arguably some of the best of the world.

Science and technology
Brazil is the Southern Hemisphere's powerhouse in technology. A lot of companies are based in Brazil, and other researchers are usually made by universities, founded by the government and privately.

Brazil's most esteemed technological hubs are the ARPA (Royal Agency of Aerospacial Research), Oswaldo Cruz Institute (also known as FIOCRUZ), the Air Force's aerospace program.

The ARPA has the most advanced space program of the southern hemisphere, working together with NASA and ESA. it has one of the best-located launch centers in Phillipeia.

Media and communication
The Brazilian press has its beginnings in 1808 with the arrival of the Portuguese royal family to Brazil, hitherto forbidden any activity of the press – was the publication of newspapers or books. The Brazilian press was officially born in Rio de Janeiro on 13 May 1808, with the creation of the Royal Printing, National Press by the Prince Regent Dom João.

Television in Brazil began officially on 18 September 1950, with the founding of TV Tupi by Assis Chateaubriand. Since then television has grown in the country, creating large public networks such as 5s, SBT, Globo News, SPN, CBnews.

Geography
In this timeline the Panama region is much larger south, making Brazil placed in a lower latitude overall. Also, there is a failure in the south America plate, creating a new mountain chain.

Climate
Brazil's climate is a mixture of sub-tropical and tropical, In the South and Central-South region snows frequently in the winter, and in the northern region the climate is semi-tropical noteIn this world Central America region is much larger south, that makes Brazil placed in a lower latitude overall.

Monarchs
Brazil is a Constitutional Monarchy and it has had seven monarchs up until now. see alsoList of prime ministers of Brazil.

Politics
Brazil is one of the most internationally notable countries in political matters. The country has one of the fewer percentages of corruption and one of highest of transparency and participation of the Citizen in the politics.

Each of the states has a certain number of Congressmen proportional to its population, the largest number of congressmen is from the Sao Paulo State, having 51 of them and the state with the smallest amount of congressmen is the Sergipe State, having only two of the total of 366. In the Senate, each state has two Representing Senators resulting in 64 Senators

The elections occur every four years (For the lower house and mayors) and every five years (For Senators, Governors and Prime Minister, indirectly)

There are six major parties in Brazil, the Green Patriots (PVP), the Libertarians, The Conservatives and the Moderates, from the Right Wing and the Social Democrats (PSD) and Workers Party (PT) from the Left Wing.

Administrative regions
Brazil is a country composed of 31 states, one federal district (which contains the capital city, Audrei) and municipalities. States have autonomous administrations, collect their own taxes and receive a share of taxes collected by the government. They have a governor and a unicameral legislative body elected directly by their voters. They also have independent Courts of Law for common justice. Despite this, states have much less autonomy to create their own laws than in the United States. For example, criminal and civil laws can be voted by only the federal bicameral Congress and are uniform throughout the country.

Demography
Brazil has a large population of 157,489,778 inhabitants.

Religion
Brazil is a secular country, even though the religion may influence in the country

Christians make 56.7% of the population followed by Jews that makes 33.1% of the population, being the third country in Jewish population, followed by other minor religions.

Immigration
Brazil has a medium number of immigrants, most of them are Japanese, having the largest number of Japanese outside Japan, Irish, having the largest Irish population outside the British Isles, and Jews the third country in Jewish population.

Sports
Brazil is a powerhouse on sports and has a diverse variety of popular sports, The most popular ones are Football and volley, which is popular in the whole country, baseball, mainly on the central-east region, ice hockey on the south and basketball on the north. Brazil is also strong in individual sports like Tennis, Racing and others

Olympics
Brazil has hosted four Olympic games being the southern hemisphere country whom most hosted Olympics. The country has at least one player in each Olympics.

Summer Games 1920
The 1920 Summer Games was located in Rio de Janeiro and it was the first Olympics in the Southern Hemisphere, it replaced Antwerp Olympics because of economics problems post-WWII, the Olympics actually happened on the Brazilian Winter, where temperatures were about 12ºc

The Olympic was opened by Queen Elizabeth, a year before she died, on August 14 and closed on September 12. 30 nations participated with 2626 athletes (2561 men, 65 women).

Winter Games 1921
The 1921 Olympic games were the first winter games occurred between January 7th to February 1st. The winter games as opened by Queen Elizabeth’s son and future king, Leonard I.