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The name Puertego comes from a combination of the Spanish words Puerto Negro the countries former nickname by anti-slavery advocates to mean that the country war corrupted or evil 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.

==History==

The first evidence of civilization in the territory that makes up modern day Puertego has been dated back to the 10th century BC when the first Puertegan natives settled the regions first towns, Puertegan native society was primarily based on subsistence agriculture with food such as corn and potatoes though they also showed signs of growth after their civilizations were thought to have discovered irrigation with evidence of early currency and organized religion with various effigies found around certain sites though they have never had any signs of a written language at this point. Ancient Puertego was made up of several dozen native tribes but there were 4 main ones that inhabited the countries modern day borders with the first evidence of cities in the region being found around 2000 BC with it being built around modern day San Lina, being the first to build such a thing in the region provided a large benefit to the Utanah civilization with them using the city's economic and military advantages to conquer their neighboring tribes until their eventual collapse at which point one of the civilizations they conquered rose up and took San Lina from them repeating the cycle until eventually the first empire Puertego had seen with the Nokotan empire rising up in 510 conquering all of the modern day territory.

The Nokotan empire ruled over the area of modern Puertego starting from 510 and operated as a theocracy for the empire's religion, they were primarily a land focused empire though they began to focus more on the sea as time progressed and their capacity for ship building increased with a distinct merchant class forming in the empire due to this and the empire colonizing three of the islands closest to them. The merchants in the empire were the first to discover the First Imperium of Caphiria and began trading with them for almost 100 years, however all this came to an end in 854 where according to official records a sugar merchant in Nokotan got into an argument with a Caphirian merchant over the price of his goods that ended with the Caphirian merchant being stabbed to death, Caphiria demanded Nokotan hand over the merchant who did this but they refused leading to an all-out war between the two powers which ended with Nokotan being conquered by Caphiria along with the capital being sacked and the country gaining the name Puerto Negro from anti-slavery advocates in Caphiria. The Latin conquest of the area came with severe social and political upheaval for the country with cultural shock in regard to things such as traditions and language which started being forced onto the population of the region, their political system was also turned over as the previous theocracy was dismantled and an upper class of landowners took the place of the church in society and made use of the newly abundant source of slaves made available. This system of rule by Caphiria only lasted for around 40 years with the collapse of the empire allowing Puertego to break away from it in multiple small states which fought with and raided each other for decades, the region was conquered once again by Caphiria during the rule of the third imperium which almost completely washed away the old religion and instilled deeply traditional Catholicism into the population which made them very prone to reacting harshly during the Great Schism with Puertegans starting lynch mobs and burning down churches from the Church of Caphiria enough to provoke a military crackdown from the empire starting a war between the two entities which ended with Puertego gaining its independence from Caphiria in 1616 only to almost immediately get conquered by Pelaxia.

Under the rule of the Pelaxians much improved in Puertego with many of the infrastructure the country uses originally being built by them but much also stayed the same for many with their landlords controlling wielding massive political and economic influence over them and generally being considered to be above the law. There were many attempts by the Pelaxian government to fix these issues later on in their reign such as them illegalizing slavery in 1798 and attempting land distribution to the peasants in the early 1800's both of which were extremely unpopular with the rich landowner class who repeatedly protested these actions and tried everything in their power to stop them from going through as effectively as they should have. After several attempted labor reforms, the rich landowner class of Puertego decided they had enough and stoked fear in the very conservative population spreading false claims that the Pelaxian government wanted to integrate Puertegan natives into society and get rid of the Catholic church from the country, on top of this they repeatedly provoked responses from the government which devolved into violence making the population desire separation from the Pelaxian government more. This eventually exploded into full blown rebellion against the government after protests in San Lina broke out and the police force opened fire on them killing 40 people, this finally sparked a full on revolution among the population first in San Lina but quickly spreading among almost the entire region except for the northernmost state that's closest to Pelaxia and one island they controlled staying loyal to them.

The Puertegan rebel forces were lead by Antonio Gonzalez a former sugar plantation manager who almost immediately began to order his soldiers to raid federal armories and fortify San Lina, only a few days afterwards on January 2nd Pelaxian soldiers made a landing only a few miles away from San Lina and were met just outside the city by a Puertegan militia force led by general Fernando Sanchez ending in a phyrric victory for the Pelaxian forces who did manage to capture San Lina and held it for a week and four days before an even larger Puertegan army showed up led by Antonio Gonzalez and retook the city from the weakened army. In the Eastern regions of Puertego the rebel forces immediately began launching attacks on loyalist towns and villages across the Pelaxian-Puertegan border starting on January 5th and lasting until January 12th prompting a response from the army to cross across the border and try to engage the rebel forces who retreated from them and utilized scorched earth tactics on the land they were retreating from, once the Pelaxian army crossed into rebel occupied territory they faced fierce resistance from the locals making them turn back only to find that the rebel army attacked them when they did so ambushing the tired and disoriented army and beating them. These defeats prompted the Pelaxian government to give Puertego independence on January 18th, 1904 except for the one island that stayed loyal to Pelaxia which was absorbed into their territory.

Almost immediately after Puertego declared independence on January 20th Antonio Gonzalez declared himself the first president of the republic, establishing the National Assembly and assisting in writing the first constitution, however president Antonio Gonzalez soon became infamous for his corruption having embezzled the modern equivalent of 850 million damillos across his 12 year rule, on top of that multiple opposition members of the National Assembly went missing under his rule and a law relegalizing slavery just barely didn't pass in the National Assembly. After 12 years of having to deal with the heavy corruption he allowed to run rampant in the government and his often time blatant authoritarianism and crushing of dissent a coup was thrown against him on  July 6th, 1916 resulting in him and his son who he appointed as vice president being hung in the center of a market in San Lina, he was replaced with Francisco Martinez who ruled in much the same way as Gonzalez being extremely corrupt and authoritarian, he was also suspected of being in the pockets of Caphiria with many new trade routes opening up between the two and him giving very generous concessions to the rich land owners to allow them to sell their produce to the Caphirians for cheap. Under this system almost all systems that weren't based on resource extraction and agriculture went bankrupt casing massive unemployment among the urban population and the government responded by printing vast amounts of money and spiking inflation to try and help with social services which were often rendered ineffective due to widespread corruption. Francisco Martinez ruled for 10 years until being overthrown in a coup on November 11th, 1926 by another dictator who ruled for 5 years who was in turn overthrown by another dictator with a 5 year reign before he was in turn overthrown by yet another dictator who only ruled for 3 years before dying of natural causes in office, they all ruled in much the same was as Martinez sparking wide scale protests among the population calling for a transition to democracy, after the last dictators death in 1958 the National Assembly rewrote the constitution to guarantee a multi party system and limits on the presidents power.

After the new constitution was implemented two parties gained dominance over almost the entire political system the Puertegan Conservative Party and the Puertegan Labor Party, both parties were essentially the only choices in elections and both engaged in corrupt practices such as bribery, embezzlement, and cronyism however the democracy protests ceased and the country was recovering from the harm the dictators did establishing a new currency to deal with the hyper inflation and growing the sectors that went bankrupt, this balance lasted until the National Assembly voted to increase the presidents power due to a separatist movement threatening to turn into a civil war, the then president Maximilian Anolsa a member of the Labor Party crushing the rebels with the increased power but afterwards also using the new powers to crack down on the Conservative Party with protests that followed being met with violence from the government security forces. Anolsa was decisively voted out in the next election but the powers remained and the now conservative led government used them to crack down on the labor party with similarly brutal methods. The issue of Caphiria vs Urcea also became a very dividing issue with the conservatives siding with Caphiria while the labor party sided with Urcea, both sides used this as an excuse to censor the other sides press outlets to get rid of "misinformation".

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