Puertego

The People's Republic of Puertego commonly called Puertego, is a Unitary Marxist-Leninist Presidential Republic currently under the rule of President Matthias Torres the leader since 2001 though since the enacting of various capitalist policies the legitimacy of them calling themselves Marxist-Leninist has been questioned. It is bordered on the north by Pelaxia and Volonia and on the west by the Natiserve Bay. Puertego covers 1,185,182 square kilometers and has an estimated population of 65 million. Puertego comprises of 12 states and 1 territory.

Puertego was first a collection of tribes that inhabited its modern-day borders and the land around it until the first empire of the region came to be. Puertego was originally colonized by Caphiria under the name of Puerto Negro because of the large number of slaves moving through and that were in the colony, things got better slowly with the numbers of slaves slowly decreasing until the outlawing of slavery in 1811 where all of them were freed. However, Puertego was still largely impoverished and ruled over my oppressive colonial overlords who brutally repressed the people when they demanded change and treated their newly freed workers almost the same as they did when they were slaves causing multiple large-scale revolts until the country finally gained its independence in a war against Pelaxia in 1904. After independence the country fell into the sphere of influence of the Caphirians who installed multiple puppet dictators to run the country as a banana republic with conditions barely improving for the workers, corruption running rampant, and any industry that wasn't mining or agriculture going bankrupt. The country stayed like this until 1958 where multiple protests and revolts finally got the government to begin transitioning to democracy, however both Urcea and the Caphirians almost immediately began to meddle in the country's elections with the Puertegan Conservative Party and the Puertegan Labor Party cyclically taking power and cracking down on the other when they gained power until 1972 when the Caphirian government authorized a military coup where a fascist dictator took power, banning political parties until he was overthrown by a communist revolution in 1980 with the country being ruled as a one party state until 1992 where a civil war between the hardline Communist Red Flag party and the reformist Communist White Flag Party broke out ending in 1997 when the Communist White Flag party won and assumed control of the government. The Communist White Flag party is still the incumbent party in the nation's government and them having lost either their majority in parliament or a presidential election for one of their candidates, President Matthias Torres has served as the President of Puertego for 22 years as a member of the party and has taken large measures to liberalize the country's economy preventing stagnation.

Puertego is a regional and middle power in international politics. Puertego is considered a developing, lower-middle income, and newly industrialized country, a large portion of their economy is made by natural resources and industry. The government of Puertego is considered a hybrid regime which maintains elections that are regular and free though not fair while also having strong authoritarian powers such as the ability to crack down on freedoms such as speech, assembly, association, and the press with the country constantly being ranked one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists having at least 400 actively serving prison time for defamation charges pressed on them by the government and having an extremely poor record with human rights including torture, arbitrary arrests, extrajudicial executions, and unfair trials among many others along with massive levels of corruption and censorship. The country tries to maintain a balanced policy in foreign affairs to try and keep trade good with all countries, making concessions to them without swinging too far to one side.

Puertego is a member of the League of Nations.

Etymology
The name Puertego comes from a combination of the Spanish words Puerto Negro the countries former name due to the large number of slaves that came from it and were moved through it, however after the Puertegan Communist Red flag party gained power in 1980 they changed the name of the country to its current name in order to avoid any former implication the nation could have had with slavery.

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''The economy of Puertego is considered a mixed model economy based largely on natural resource extraction primarily via agriculture and mining and manufacturing primarily of steel, chemicals, and textiles. The economic liberalizations brought by the incumbent president have switched the country from an extraction based planned economy to one split between extraction and industry, the country has adopted much greater economic freedoms than it had under any previous governments with the Special Investment Zones established under him meant to attract foreign investment through very reduced regulations and taxes to business operating there, though the government also maintains monopolies with their state run industries which operate in utilities and natural resources. Economic growth in the nation has been relatively steady with the economy growing by an average of 6-7% each year since 2001 primarily attributed to the Special Investment Zones established at the time, foreign investors in Puertego get many benefits from the government including temporary subsidies for their investments and not having the full amount of their wealth made from it taxed. The poverty rate in Puertego is around 1 in 5 Puertetgans living below the poverty line, in addition the Puertegan government offers very little in terms of social welfare for average citizens, this combination means that there is a large amount of street crime in the nation's cities and a large black market as well with this being allowed to happen by pervasive corruption in almost all levels of the government.''

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''The single largest sector of Puertego's economy is manufacturing with it making up 64% of the economy and employing 33% of the workforce, the primary manufacturing products in the country are steel, aluminum, various chemicals, and textiles with Puertego also having become a very attractive place for companies to outsource jobs to due to the of their workforce and the low taxes and regulations on business there. Resource extraction is also a very large section of the economy with it making up 28% of the economy and employing 57% of the population, the primary resources sold off by Puertego are often minerals such as iron, gold, tin, nickle, and copper, and agriculture products such as rubber and sugar, all of the natural resources in Puertego including minerals, oil, non-food agriculture, and even fresh water and owned and operated by government run companies. Services are a relatively small section of the economy only making up 8% of the economy and employing 10% of the population with most of the people working in this sector working in finance, banking, or utilities.''

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''The official currency of Puertego is the Puertegan Damillo, the Damillo is the second longest lasting currency in Puertego having been in use for 26 years. The Damillo currency suffers from an inflation rate of 20% though the government has been making strides to attempt to reduce inflation over the years. The Damillo is split into denominations of 10, 20, 50, 100, 250, 500, and 1,000 which are all issued by the Puertegan Central Bank.''

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''Puertego offers free healthcare to all its citizens though the quality is notoriously poor with overcrowding meaning that often times patients have to share beds, unsanitary conditions, and long wait times, there is also a lot of corruption in the government run healthcare with embezzlement being commonplace in the nation's hospitals and many patients reporting doctors demanding bribes to write perscriptions for them. However there have been attempts by the government to increase the quality by cracking down on corruption in the industry with much heavier monitoring of staff and administrators, additionally the government has begun building clinics in rural communities with no access to regular hospitals and also provides free clean water and free vaccinations to all citizens with the latter being attributed to a large reason for the country almost eradicating certain diseases like Polio.''

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