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One of the primary modern-day features of the Puertegan Path to Socialism is what its followers deem a socialist market economy in which the state allows for capitalist institutions to form and exist for a time in order to establish the means of production to seize for a proper socialist government to come about, this is seen in Puertego with the creation of the SIZs and the generous perks given to foreign and domestic investors in the economy such as tax shelters, subsides, and introductory corporate tax rates. The Puertegan government also allowed for limited property rights in the country with it allowing people to rent land from the government in order to establish businesses instead of outright buying it however Puertego also has some of the strongest intellectual property rights in the world enshrined into law. This program initially started with only the most minor reforms possible under Alférez with a lot of central planning still put in place and under Sanhueza much central planning stayed though foreign investment in government owned industries was allowed and encouraged. Only recently under president Torres has the level of central planning in the economy been significantly lowered and a more market oriented economy be allowed to exist.

There has been much criticism of the socialist market economy from all over the political spectrum with many economic leftists claiming that the government is catering too much to foreign corporations and has done little to actually improve the lives of regular Puertegan workers citing low wages and poor working and living conditions as an example of this while economic rightists claim that the Puertegan system is based on corruption and is a massive distortion of the free market due to their perks offered in SIZs almost exclusively benefiting large corporations while leaving many small and medium businesses unable to compete in the market due to the dominance of large companies. However, despite these complaints the Puertegan government has shown little signs that it plans to stop or largely change the direction it is going with its economic policy and seems to be set on doubling down on it instead. Both sides have also called the system under Torres ~~an oligarchy~~ due to most of the new upper class in Puertego made rich from the economic reforms have been members of the White Flag Communist Party.

There has been much criticism of the socialist market economy from all over the political spectrum with many economic leftists claiming that the government is catering too much to foreign corporations and has done little to actually improve the lives of regular Puertegan workers citing low wages and poor working and living conditions as an example of this while economic rightists claim that the Puertegan system is based on corruption and is a massive distortion of the free market due to their perks offered in SIZs almost exclusively benefiting large corporations while leaving many small and medium businesses unable to compete in the market due to the dominance of large companies. However, despite these complaints the Puertegan government has shown little signs that it plans to stop or largely change the direction it is going with its economic policy and seems to be set on doubling down on it instead. Both sides have also called the system under Torres a plutocracy due to most of the new upper class in Puertego made rich from the economic reforms have been members of the White Flag Communist Party.

=== State Power ===

The Puertegan way to socialism has always been an explicitly authoritarian and centralized ideology with Alférez stating "While we must learn from the mistakes of the last two administrations and not dip towards totalitarianism we must also not allow to the people to be able to completely stop the progress of our nation", in the early days of the ideology under Alférez public protest and free discourse was encouraged though there was limits placed on them, this changed under Sanhueza who cracked down on constitutionally guaranteed rights breaking up protests with often lethal force and detaining critics of the regime without any charges. This way of ruling sparked massive protests from the population during the last months of Sanhueza's reign with them providing an easy position for Torres to campaign on claiming he would restore civil liberties to the people. When Torres came to power he officially repealed the laws allowing the government to crack down on people's civil liberties and rights but over his rule of the country he's had laws implemented to allow him to once again undermine people's liberties such as their freedoms of speech and assembly as well as weaken any institutions that could have proven powerful such as the media, unions, and students creating what has been deemed by international observers as a form of {{wp|soft despotism}}.

The Puertegan way to socialism has always been an explicitly authoritarian and centralized ideology with Alférez stating "While we must learn from the mistakes of the last two administrations and not dip towards totalitarianism we must also not allow to the people to be able to completely stop the progress of our nation", in the early days of the ideology under Alférez public protest and free discourse was encouraged though there was limits placed on them, this changed under Sanhueza who cracked down on constitutionally guaranteed rights breaking up protests with often lethal force and detaining critics of the regime without any charges. This way of ruling sparked massive protests from the population during the last months of Sanhueza's reign with them providing an easy position for Torres to campaign on claiming he would restore civil liberties to the people. When Torres came to power he officially repealed the laws allowing the government to crack down on people's civil liberties and rights but over his rule of the country he's had laws implemented to allow him to once again undermine people's liberties such as their freedoms of speech and assembly as well as weaken any institutions that could have proven powerful such as the media, unions, and students creating what has been deemed by international observers as a form of {{wp|soft despotism}} and {{wp|authoritarian democracy}} with one foreign communist claiming "the government of Puertego has cemeented .

=== Social and Cultural Views ===

One of the core tenants of Puertegan Path to Socialism is a promise to preserve Puertegan culture and tradition in society often making followers of the ideology be traditionalist and nationalistic. Some of the earliest forms of this in the ideology during Alférez's rule were seen with him with propaganda being made to promote traditional family structures and placed heavy taxes on things considered sinful such as gambling, drinking, and brothels among other things, however when he died Sanhueza took his policies further doing things such as making homosexual acts punishable by life in prison and enacting complete prohibition on the things heavily taxed under Alférez such as gambling and pornography with only a few things like alcohol and tobacco products allowed to be kept around. These bans stayed around for his entire rule until we was impeached and executed with president Torres repealing much of the outright prohibition but keeping heavy taxes and restrictions on the things previously banned with gambling and drinking restricted to certain parts of cities especially San Lina though this has created a large black market for things entirely illegal in Puertego such as prostitution, additionally Puertego has always maintained very strict laws on abortion and a ban on any contraceptives. However there has also been some minor social progress under Torres with homosexuality decriminalized and the government recognizing gay marriages preformed abroad though not allowing them to be preformed or held in Puertego.

=== Nationalism ===

Many Puertegans surveyed say that they see their national identity as a large part of their culture and have very strong views on foreigners needing to assimilate and fit in with their national identity, that has manifested itself in the government with Puertego having some of the strictest and most expensive emigration and immigration procedures on all of Sarpedon and plenty of national symbols everywhere in the nation with the government mandating the flag on every street corner, the national anthem be played at the beginning and end of every TV and radio broadcast, and that children are mandated to say a pledge of allegiance every day on school or risk corporal punishment.

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 One of the primary modern-day features of the Puertegan Path to Socialism is what its followers deem a socialist market economy in which the state allows for capitalist institutions to form and exist for a time in order to establish the means of production to seize for a proper socialist government to come about, this is seen in Puertego with the creation of the SIZs and the generous perks given to foreign and domestic investors in the economy such as tax shelters, subsides, and introductory corporate tax rates. The Puertegan government also allowed for limited property rights in the country with it allowing people to rent land from the government in order to establish businesses instead of outright buying it however Puertego also has some of the strongest intellectual property rights in the world enshrined into law. This program initially started with only the most minor reforms possible under Alférez with a lot of central planning still put in place and under Sanhueza much central planning stayed though foreign investment in government owned industries was allowed and encouraged. Only recently under president Torres has the level of central planning in the economy been significantly lowered and a more market oriented economy be allowed to exist.
-There has been much criticism of the socialist market economy from all over the political spectrum with many economic leftists claiming that the government is catering too much to foreign corporations and has done little to actually improve the lives of regular Puertegan workers citing low wages and poor working and living conditions as an example of this while economic rightists claim that the Puertegan system is based on corruption and is a massive distortion of the free market due to their perks offered in SIZs almost exclusively benefiting large corporations while leaving many small and medium businesses unable to compete in the market due to the dominance of large companies. However, despite these complaints the Puertegan government has shown little signs that it plans to stop or largely change the direction it is going with its economic policy and seems to be set on doubling down on it instead. Both sides have also called the system under Torres an oligarchy due to most of the new upper class in Puertego made rich from the economic reforms have been members of the White Flag Communist Party.
+There has been much criticism of the socialist market economy from all over the political spectrum with many economic leftists claiming that the government is catering too much to foreign corporations and has done little to actually improve the lives of regular Puertegan workers citing low wages and poor working and living conditions as an example of this while economic rightists claim that the Puertegan system is based on corruption and is a massive distortion of the free market due to their perks offered in SIZs almost exclusively benefiting large corporations while leaving many small and medium businesses unable to compete in the market due to the dominance of large companies. However, despite these complaints the Puertegan government has shown little signs that it plans to stop or largely change the direction it is going with its economic policy and seems to be set on doubling down on it instead. Both sides have also called the system under Torres a plutocracy due to most of the new upper class in Puertego made rich from the economic reforms have been members of the White Flag Communist Party.
 === State Power ===
-The Puertegan way to socialism has always been an explicitly authoritarian and centralized ideology with Alférez stating "While we must learn from the mistakes of the last two administrations and not dip towards totalitarianism we must also not allow to the people to be able to completely stop the progress of our nation", in the early days of the ideology under Alférez public protest and free discourse was encouraged though there was limits placed on them, this changed under Sanhueza who cracked down on constitutionally guaranteed rights breaking up protests with often lethal force and detaining critics of the regime without any charges. This way of ruling sparked massive protests from the population during the last months of Sanhueza's reign with them providing an easy position for Torres to campaign on claiming he would restore civil liberties to the people. When Torres came to power he officially repealed the laws allowing the government to crack down on people's civil liberties and rights but over his rule of the country he's had laws implemented to allow him to once again undermine people's liberties such as their freedoms of speech and assembly as well as weaken any institutions that could have proven powerful such as the media, unions, and students creating what has been deemed by international observers as a form of {{wp|soft despotism}}.
+The Puertegan way to socialism has always been an explicitly authoritarian and centralized ideology with Alférez stating "While we must learn from the mistakes of the last two administrations and not dip towards totalitarianism we must also not allow to the people to be able to completely stop the progress of our nation", in the early days of the ideology under Alférez public protest and free discourse was encouraged though there was limits placed on them, this changed under Sanhueza who cracked down on constitutionally guaranteed rights breaking up protests with often lethal force and detaining critics of the regime without any charges. This way of ruling sparked massive protests from the population during the last months of Sanhueza's reign with them providing an easy position for Torres to campaign on claiming he would restore civil liberties to the people. When Torres came to power he officially repealed the laws allowing the government to crack down on people's civil liberties and rights but over his rule of the country he's had laws implemented to allow him to once again undermine people's liberties such as their freedoms of speech and assembly as well as weaken any institutions that could have proven powerful such as the media, unions, and students creating what has been deemed by international observers as a form of {{wp|soft despotism}} and {{wp|authoritarian democracy}} with one foreign communist claiming "the government of Puertego has cemeented .
 === Social and Cultural Views ===
+One of the core tenants of Puertegan Path to Socialism is a promise to preserve Puertegan culture and tradition in society often making followers of the ideology be traditionalist and nationalistic. Some of the earliest forms of this in the ideology during Alférez's rule were seen with him with propaganda being made to promote traditional family structures and placed heavy taxes on things considered sinful such as gambling, drinking, and brothels among other things, however when he died Sanhueza took his policies further doing things such as making homosexual acts punishable by life in prison and enacting complete prohibition on the things heavily taxed under Alférez such as gambling and pornography with only a few things like alcohol and tobacco products allowed to be kept around. These bans stayed around for his entire rule until we was impeached and executed with president Torres repealing much of the outright prohibition but keeping heavy taxes and restrictions on the things previously banned with gambling and drinking restricted to certain parts of cities especially San Lina though this has created a large black market for things entirely illegal in Puertego such as prostitution, additionally Puertego has always maintained very strict laws on abortion and a ban on any contraceptives. However there has also been some minor social progress under Torres with homosexuality decriminalized and the government recognizing gay marriages preformed abroad though not allowing them to be preformed or held in Puertego.
+=== Nationalism ===
+Many Puertegans surveyed say that they see their national identity as a large part of their culture and have very strong views on foreigners needing to assimilate and fit in with their national identity, that has manifested itself in the government with Puertego having some of the strictest and most expensive emigration and immigration procedures on all of Sarpedon and plenty of national symbols everywhere in the nation with the government mandating the flag on every street corner, the national anthem be played at the beginning and end of every TV and radio broadcast, and that children are mandated to say a pledge of allegiance every day on school or risk corporal punishment.
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