Portugal
City of Lisgoa

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Leader	Falklands
Population	~25
Capital	Lisboa
Towns	Lisboa Feitoria de Luanda Macau Tiznit Cabo Bissau
Notable members	numried uhFiliate Uninvolving EurekaEsperi Lord_Jebe

Portugal, also known as Portugoa and later renamed to Quinto Império after integrating Iberia, was a major nation in World War 2. What began as a small buildfag town in Lisboa with Falklands and numried as its only expected members, soon grew into one of the most influential nations on the server, and Lisboa as one of the server's most beautiful cities.

Pre-Server

With Strykergang officially retiring before the release of the server, Falklands/Goa was without a metagroup for the first time since 2017. Desiring to build something low-key in a warmer climate, he chose to create Portugal. Goa naturally invited Numried since he was Portuguese. Originally, Portugal was just going to be primarily the two of them buildfagging and memeraiding, offering mercenary services during war. To their surprise, Portugal would quickly outgrow that plan, and would attract small, diverse core of high quality players such as uhFiliate, Jonathan, and memebigboy_.

Architecture

The city of Lisboa suffered from a rocky start at first. Falklands defiantly refused to plan anything in advance in order for the city to maintain an authentic character. Except for a renovated Praça do Comércio, almost every building in the city was freehand. Few factories were built to keep the city looking nice. Portugal's colonies, particularly those on the coast of Africa, also saw development as Portuguese warriors tirelessly civilized and built settlements for the African doctors, lawyers, and engineers that inhabited the jungle. The majority of the Empire eventually became accessible via port. By the end of the server, Lisboa was one of four Tier 3 cities, and considered by many as the server's best town.

Diplomacy and Politics

The Portuguese were masters of diplomacy. They developed a global network of close alliances to compensate for its low population, with the aim of minimizing potential invaders. Those who refused to be allies were often subject to 'numried diplomacy', where target nations would be mercilessly (yet successfully) memeraided until friendly. Portugal also established multiple trade deals -particularly with Brasil- to supplement their lack of industrial output. Portugal was a core member of the Grand Alliance and forged close ties with the Italosphere and other great powers. Goa often boasted about Lisboa not needing walls because of their diplomatic effectiveness. After the final war, Lisboa hosted the international map painting autism conference, where the final borders of the server were decided.

Military

Portugal was militarily successful. While numerically small, its playerbase was comprised of /int/crafts most feared PvPers and commanders. On the first war weekend, Portugal aided Phamtomist Spain in the Spanish Civil War, and assisted the Grand Alliance's invasion of Japan in defence of China. On the second war weekend, The Portuguese participated in the Battle of France, taking a large piece of territory around the Loire valley, backclaimed much of French Africa, and aided their Finnish allies in Russia. The next day was spent destroying the surprise French insurgency in Africa¹⁾ together with Brasil, and due to numried's bloodlust, Portugal concluded the second war weekend with a surprise invasion of Nazi Germany. Finally, on the third and final war weekend of the server, Portuguese forces, with the help of Brasil, the CSA, and VivianJames, launched a proper invasion of Germany that ended in the capture of Berlin and yet another decisive victory for the Grand Alliance.

Although a blocky ripoff of a real Portuguese propaganda map of appropriate period, still one of the highest quality images to come out of iteration 38