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In Puertego the country's repeated and blatant human rights violations remain a significant concern with some of the most common issues regarding the nation's status on freedoms of association, speech, the press, and assembly with the government passing many pieces of legislation allowing them to seriously curb these freedoms with some of them being the 2010 insurrection and riot act which allows the government to break up any gathering peaceful or not if they deem it to soon cause "lawless and disorderly behavior" and the 2011 Defamation act which allows the government to charge people with libel, slander, or attempting to incite public disorder, additionally the government has been criticized by international observers for the status of torture by police and the poor overcrowded conditions in the nations prisons. international bodies have also expressed extreme concern over the nations policy of mass sentencing, detention without trial for up to a year, and the disappearances of human rights advocates at the hands of the nation's security forces and in its prisons. Puertego has repeatedly been ranked as one of the worst countries for press freedom and one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists with blackmail, threats, harassment, and violence all having been reported against the country's security forces by journalists with reports of security forces forcibly shutting down television stations and newspapers also being reported often. | In Puertego the country's repeated and blatant human rights violations remain a significant concern with some of the most common issues regarding the nation's status on freedoms of association, speech, the press, and assembly with the government passing many pieces of legislation allowing them to seriously curb these freedoms with some of them being the 2010 insurrection and riot act which allows the government to break up any gathering peaceful or not if they deem it to soon cause "lawless and disorderly behavior" and the 2011 Defamation act which allows the government to charge people with libel, slander, or attempting to incite public disorder, additionally the government has been criticized by international observers for the status of torture by police and the poor overcrowded conditions in the nations prisons. international bodies have also expressed extreme concern over the nations policy of mass sentencing, detention without trial for up to a year, and the disappearances of human rights advocates at the hands of the nation's security forces and in its prisons. Puertego has repeatedly been ranked as one of the worst countries for press freedom and one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists with blackmail, threats, harassment, and violence all having been reported against the country's security forces by journalists with reports of security forces forcibly shutting down television stations and newspapers also being reported often. | ||
==Demographics== | ==Demographics== | ||
In 2030 Puertego has a population of 65,278,345 living in the country with an additional 11,000,000 Puertegans legally working abroad. The population of Puertego is very young with it being estimated that around 30% of the population is 14 or younger and only around 4.1% of the population is 65+. Puertego has an annual population growth rate of around 1.4% with the growth mainly being for ethnic Puertegans a mix of Latins and native Puertegans while ethnically native Puertegans have experienced the largest loss losing 67% of their population in Puertego annually. | In 2030 Puertego has a population of 65,278,345 living in the country with an additional 11,000,000 Puertegans legally working abroad. The population of Puertego is very young with it being estimated that around 30% of the population is 14 or younger and only around 4.1% of the population is 65+. Puertego has an annual population growth rate of around 1.4% with the growth mainly being for ethnic Puertegans a mix of Latins and native Puertegans while ethnically native Puertegans have experienced the largest loss losing 67% of their population in Puertego annually. Puertego has a median age of 27 with the countries fertility rate making this number seem like it will be fairly stable. | ||
===Ethnicity=== | ===Ethnicity=== | ||
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Puertego is predominantly Catholic with 94.5% of the population reporting belonging to this religion however there is also a small Jewish minority in the country with 3.7% of the population identifying as Jews. | Puertego is predominantly Catholic with 94.5% of the population reporting belonging to this religion however there is also a small Jewish minority in the country with 3.7% of the population identifying as Jews. | ||
===Education=== | ===Education=== | ||
The most common level of education in Puertego is an 8th grade education as most citizens drop out at this point to begin working, the literacy rate in Puertego is currently sitting at around 85% though for youths in the nation it has been reported at around 92% while for the elderly literacy rates were reported at just over half, the government made it mandatory in 2011 for all children to attend school though this law is often ignored in rural areas of Puertego where children are often tasked with working on plantations with their parents. Public schooling in Puertego is free and compulsory for all children to attend until 8th grade where they are allowed to drop out. | |||
In Puertego there are only three universities and only an estimated 9.5-10% of the population has a degree from one of the universities. In Puertego university is free though due to a large percentage of the population dropping out after 8th grade in order to work only a small percentage of the population in Puertego is qualified to attend. | |||
===Health=== | |||
The average lifespan in Puertego is 70.8 years old with the average being 67.8 for men and 73.8 for women, this number has gone up from 64 years old in 2000 and has shown a steady trend upwards ever since. The government of Puertego has mandated that all adults and children in the nation must be vaccinated and has made the process free with parents who refuse the process being charged with child abuse, in 2030 the rates of Tuberculosis went down by almost half and there were only 19 reported cases of Polio alongside the sanitation campaigns the government rolled out and the infrastructure they built which have been credited for reducing cholera cases by two thirds. The infant mortality rate in Puertego was reported at 19.5 deaths per 1,000 down from 34 deaths per 1,000 in 2000, teen pregnancy stays a large issue in Puertego with the average age at a woman having her first child being 17.6, the main reasons attributed for this issue are the lack of sexual education in Puertegan schools, the lack of availability of abortion in the country with it only being available if it can be proven the mother would die from having the child, and the artificial inflation of contraceptives in Puertego with all forms of birth control for both men and women being subjected to a 75% sales tax. | |||
==Culture and Society== | ==Culture and Society== | ||
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===Education=== | ===Education=== | ||
''What is your country's education system like? How do the schools work? What do people think about education?'' | ''What is your country's education system like? How do the schools work? What do people think about education?'' | ||
===Attitudes and worldview=== | ===Attitudes and worldview=== | ||
''How do your country's people view life?'' | ''How do your country's people view life?'' | ||