Brazil (Attack Machines)

**Brazil** was, between 1946 and 1990, a small country limited to parts of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais, and from then on to the arrival of Sumner's pan-global XCORP dictatorship, a country consisting of three main units, Southeast, Northeast and North. The country had a population of about 80,000 as of May 9, 2020, on the night of the arrival of the Hardrons, with 60,000 living in the Southeast unit. Its capital was Rio de Janeiro.

## History

### Weathering the Apocalypse

Brazil was a country that faced problems following the 1947 disaster imposed by Kraventhorn.

### 1947 to 1989

At the time of the Apocalypse of 1947 started by Kraventhorn, the following cells were known to harbor population:

* Rio de Janeiro (2.006)
* Marabá (746)
* São Paulo (678)
* Belo Horizonte (593)
* São José dos Campos (590)
* Goianinha (587)
* Recife (528)
* Belém (524)

In late May 1947, people started fleeing the Rio cell and started rebuilding the city, mostly intact at the time. Other cells soon followed. Initially Brazil was split between four cells in the country's southeast, with São José dos Campos starting to gain strategic importance for the beginning of the Brazilian Reunification, achieved between 1950 and 1955. Such a location would put SJC at the center of the cities of São Paulo, Belo Horizonte and Rio de Janeiro, with plans to make SJC the capital, but they never came into fruition.

By 1960, the population of the bespoke Brazilian Republic was of about ten thousand.

### Democracy

In November 1989, Brazil's "de facto nanny state" first imposed 42 years earlier was defeated by protesters who ousted the old order, and demanded a return of pre-1946 levels of governance, but with more liberties, making the government similar to that of the USA.

Like in the previous attempt to relocate the capital to São José dos Campos, the new Brazilian government planned to move the capital to Lavras/MG by 1993, but ultimately the plan failed to gain traction and the capital remained as it always was in Rio de Janeiro.

### Expansion and North Brazil

In 1999, radio signals coming from the city-state of Goiânia were received by the government of the state of Marabá. In 2020, the state remained independent.

Thanks to access from the sea, it was possible for the South Eastern government to annex North Brazil between 2000 and 2003, with the aim of recreating the former Brazilian state. The governments of Goianinha and Fortaleza were the first to be annexed, followed by Marabá.

### Cláudio Dyer

Cláudio Dyer first appeared in the list of electoral candidates in February 2018 and was elected by an estimated 20,000 voters in October 2018. Under his term he tried to liberalize the economy and begin a process to restore the former Brazil and give an impulse to people born after 2000.

### Hardrons

Brazil was hit by the fall of the existing order in May 2020, on the night of May 9th (Rio de Janeiro time) news arrived of the arrival of the first fleet of hardrons to South America, tecraudio fled at 9:19pm by interdimensional travel, one of the 137 people to safely survive the wave of destruction caused by Dead Atlantis.

## Media

### Radio

**Rádio Nacional** was set up in late 1946 with the forced buying of radio stations in the former state capitals and was operated at an arms-length from the Brazilian government. The reformed O Globo set up its own radio station (Rádio Globo) in 2000, ending the national radio monopoly.

### Television

Television was introduced to Brazil in 2003 in the Rio de Janeiro area under the auspices of the federal government, as Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão, owned by notable survivor Silvio Santos. A competitor (Globo) started in 2011. During the Cláudio Dyer administration SBT was viewed as "official" while Globo was viewed as the "opposition".

As of the time of the Second Purge, Brazilian TV ran for up to four hours a day. A number of technical innovations emerged within the past ten years, magnetic video tapes in 2012, color television in 2015 and outside broadcast vans in 2017.