Fascist Brazil (Frozen War)

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Category:Frozen War The Second Brazilian Empire, also known simply as Imperial Brazil, Fascist Brazil, or the Brazilian Empire was an ethno-nationalist theocratic authoritarian state that existed between the fall of the Federative Republic of Brazil and overthrow of President Lula da Silva on 1 January 2026 until the Brazilian Civil War and Race War that took place between 2072 and 2076.
The largest and easternmost country in South America and in Latin America, Imperial Brazil was the world's fifth-largest country by area and the sixth most populous including claimed territory. Its capital was Brasília, and its most populous city was São Paulo. The federation was composed of the union of the 26 states and the Federal District which was immediately adopted by the more unitary fascist state in 2026. It is the only country in the Americas to have Portuguese as an official language. It is one of the most multicultural and ethnically diverse nations, due to over a century of mass immigration from around the world. 
In the 2020's, Imperial Brazil would participate in the Third World War on the side of the United Nations and BRIC, sustaining relatively light casualties compared to its Eurasian counterparts and their allies outside of the Americas, although would engage the United States and Puerto Rico on its periphery in the South American Crisis of the late 2020's. Although in opposition to the United States, Brazil was treated more akin to a rogue colony of the U.S. empire, and punished rather lightly in comparison to the Arabs and Russians, with the Americans intent on keeping Catholic Brazil in their orbit.
Under Pedro III the monarchy was essentially a figurehead with limited powers, akin to the Emperor of Japan. In many ways under the Prime Ministership of Hamilton Mourao from 2026 to 2038, the monarchy was a mere puppet and political tool the military junta used to justify and exercise its rule. In fighting for crown and country, the military claimed it was the strong fist that was needed to protect Brazil. This all changed with the death of Mourao and ascendence of Antonio I in 2036, in which the monarchy successfully asserted itself as a co-equal ruler of Brazil. Although authoritarianism and white nationalist sentiment would run rampant in Brazil for a century to come, the anti-fascists had a symbol and a bulwark against the fascists that they could utilize as leverage against them.
A series of conflicts would precipitate in the 2040's and 2050's, at first seeing massive defeats for the anti-fascists and pro-monarchy. Either way, the country was set to descend further into totalitarianism and high-tech mass-surveillance in the name of security for the monarchy. Civil liberties became more restricted than at almost any other point in Brazil's history. Truly, the entire Western Hemisphere almost had descended into fascism and totalitarianism. This would persist into the 2060's which would see a brief renaissance in which Democratic Monarchists surged in popularity between 2061 and 2068 under Antonio II, Pedro V and Rodrigo II. Emperor Rodrigo II would become the last monarch of both Brazil and South America, as under his reign white nationalist monarchists would rise to power in 2068 and 2069 across the country and begin a series of attacks on Black and Asian-majority regions of Brazil, while also engaging in secessionism that would result in the collapse of the national monarchy and the establishment of short-lived regional monarchs and aristocrats which would quickly be usurped by fascists and authoritarians over the next several years.