Claim: Portugal is a nation-state that has technological and infrastructural advances.
Evidence: Portugal is a developed country with a high-income advanced economy and a high living standard.
A developed country , industrialized country , more developed country , or `` more economically developed country '' -LRB- MEDC -RRB- , is a sovereign state that has a highly developed economy and advanced technological infrastructure relative to other less industrialized nations.
Most commonly , the criteria for evaluating the degree of economic development are gross domestic product -LRB- GDP -RRB- , gross national product -LRB- GNP -RRB- , the per capita income , level of industrialization , amount of widespread infrastructure and general standard of living.