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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 hyperinflation and growing the sectors that went bankrupt, this balance lasted until the National Assembly voted to increase the president's 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". | 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 hyperinflation and growing the sectors that went bankrupt, this balance lasted until the National Assembly voted to increase the president's 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". | ||
===Fascist rule (1972-1980)=== | ===Fascist rule (1972-1980)=== | ||
After around 30 years of rule by both parties cyclically taking power and cracking down on each other protests became much more common across San Lina with the main | After around 30 years of rule by both parties cyclically taking power and cracking down on each other protests became much more common across San Lina with the main orchestrator of these protests Ricardo Verano a former mine manager running for president in 1972 as an independent and losing, he claimed that the election was rigged by both the conservative and labor parties against him and called on his supporters to throw a coup which they did a mere two days after the election was over taking over the National Assembly and shooting the incumbent president and multiple members of the National Assembly before declaring Roberto Verano the new president of Puertego. Verano openly called himself a fascist and called for autarky and a syndicalist economic model stating that the previous governments failed to improve conditions for Puertegans and that he must be given almost absolute powers to combat this at which point the National Assembly which he filled almost entirely with his supporters altered the constitution to give him every power he asked them for. He also embarked on multiple economic reforms creating a new currency, nationalizing several industries, raising taxes, expanding welfare, and making very pro-union laws for the private enterprises remaining. However this economic model did not work very well at actually improving the countries economy with inflation rapidly increasing from him printing more money to fund his various welfare programs, shortages caused by his price controls, the country going through a debt crisis under him, and foreign investment almost non-existent, corruption also still ran virtually unchecked in all levels of the governments and the unions causing intense dissatisfaction among the people with him being overthrown in 1980 in a revolution by communists in Puertego beginning the regime of the Puertegan Red Flag Communist Party. | ||
===Communist Red Flag rule and civil war=== | ===Communist Red Flag rule and civil war=== | ||
The Puertegan Red Flag Communist Party ruled as a one party state and was considered one of the most authoritarian governments the country ever had with a secret police called the Internal Watchman Society being responsible for tens of thousands of deaths of Puertegans even suspected of dissenting or who the government thought may offer dissenting opinions soon, massive food shortages also soon took hold of Puertego with the government taking control of all land and mainly using it to grow cash crops and neglecting food production, this along with them continuing Verano's autarkist policies meant that soon food shortages turned to famines resulting in the deaths of an estimated 12 million people dying from three separate famines across the country's history. In between two of these famines the government of Puertego tried to take back the island that stayed loyal to Pelaxia during their civil war in 1986 under the pretext of freeing Puertegan workers being exploited there, they lost the battle horribly and had to deal with massive protests back on the mainland over it ending in massacres of the protesters by government security forces. After their attempted invasion of the island the government went into a debt crisis and started printing more money to try and get out of it with inflation reaching a never before seen 650 trillion percent. In secret the Puertegan White Flag Communist Party was formed, it was made up of more liberal and reform minded communists who hated the hard-line stance of the current party. This resentment towards them plus persecution towards their members by the government eventually exploded in violence on Ju 1992 when they started began a rebellion in the countries southern provinces with them eventually gaining control of the province and shortly afterwards gaining control of all the southern provinces and most of the country's central provinces, as the rebellion spread to different provinces over the course of a month a military response by the Puertegan government eventually came from the north with a stalemate established until 1993. On February 23rd, 1993, general Hugo Martín took most of the tanks that were bought from various other countries and organized a massive offensive on the front which was preformed just a few days later on February 26th, the offensive was successful in breaking through the enemy's line and the following surge of soldiers managed to encircle multiple divisions and killed an estimated 152,000 enemy soldiers killed in this and many cities in the central provinces were recaptured, however while most White Flag generals wanted to hold and fortify the land in the event of an anticipated counter attack general Martín continued pushing to San Lina to try and capture the city however the general went too far too fast for the supply lines to keep up and eventually got cut off with him suffering through ambush after ambush before finally being defeated on March 4th, 1993. This proved to be a devastating blow to the White Flag forces as this meant that had lost a majority of the mechanized divisions by some estimates as many as 85% of their tanks and other vehicles, this made the leadership take on an even more defensive policy than they had previously with them laying down over half a million landmines and embarking on mass conscription of the local population in anticipation of a Red Flag counter attack against the regions which took place on April 10th, 1993, this offensive resulted in a pyricc victory for the White Flag rebels with an estimates 166,000 dead on their side and 204,000 dead on the Red Flag side. Both sides retreated back to their bases near the battlefield to recuperate after the battle until August where the Red Flag side suffered multiple revolts in San Lina drawing more and more soldiers away from the front lines until the White Flag rebels felt confident, they had enough manpower to overwhelm the government forces and made a second large push with this one being much more successful and leading to them controlling the entire eastern side of the country along with many central northern provinces locking the Red Flag side almost exclusively to the peninsula San Lina rests on and the northern province above it increasing their desperation for numbers and starting another mass conscription drive in San Lina leading to some of the worst riots the city has ever seen costing millions in damages and killing hundreds, after the riots finally calmed the rioters declared their allegiance to the White Flag party and after almost a month of fighting and desertions on the Red Flag side San Lina was captured and ceded to the White Flag rebels finally forcing the battered and depopulated government forces to surrender to the rebels | The Puertegan Red Flag Communist Party ruled as a one party state and was considered one of the most authoritarian governments the country ever had with a secret police called the Internal Watchman Society being responsible for tens of thousands of deaths of Puertegans even suspected of dissenting or who the government thought may offer dissenting opinions soon, massive food shortages also soon took hold of Puertego with the government taking control of all land and mainly using it to grow cash crops and neglecting food production, this along with them continuing Verano's autarkist policies meant that soon food shortages turned to famines resulting in the deaths of an estimated 12 million people dying from three separate famines across the country's history. In between two of these famines the government of Puertego tried to take back the island that stayed loyal to Pelaxia during their civil war in 1986 under the pretext of freeing Puertegan workers being exploited there, they lost the battle horribly and had to deal with massive protests back on the mainland over it ending in massacres of the protesters by government security forces. After their attempted invasion of the island the government went into a debt crisis and started printing more money to try and get out of it with inflation reaching a never before seen 650 trillion percent. In secret the Puertegan White Flag Communist Party was formed, it was made up of more liberal and reform minded communists who hated the hard-line stance of the current party. This resentment towards them plus persecution towards their members by the government eventually exploded in violence on Ju 1992 when they started began a rebellion in the countries southern provinces with them eventually gaining control of the province and shortly afterwards gaining control of all the southern provinces and most of the country's central provinces, as the rebellion spread to different provinces over the course of a month a military response by the Puertegan government eventually came from the north with a stalemate established until 1993. On February 23rd, 1993, general Hugo Martín took most of the tanks that were bought from various other countries and organized a massive offensive on the front which was preformed just a few days later on February 26th, the offensive was successful in breaking through the enemy's line and the following surge of soldiers managed to encircle multiple divisions and killed an estimated 152,000 enemy soldiers killed in this and many cities in the central provinces were recaptured, however while most White Flag generals wanted to hold and fortify the land in the event of an anticipated counter attack general Martín continued pushing to San Lina to try and capture the city however the general went too far too fast for the supply lines to keep up and eventually got cut off with him suffering through ambush after ambush before finally being defeated on March 4th, 1993. This proved to be a devastating blow to the White Flag forces as this meant that had lost a majority of the mechanized divisions by some estimates as many as 85% of their tanks and other vehicles, this made the leadership take on an even more defensive policy than they had previously with them laying down over half a million landmines and embarking on mass conscription of the local population in anticipation of a Red Flag counter attack against the regions which took place on April 10th, 1993, this offensive resulted in a pyricc victory for the White Flag rebels with an estimates 166,000 dead on their side and 204,000 dead on the Red Flag side. Both sides retreated back to their bases near the battlefield to recuperate after the battle until August where the Red Flag side suffered multiple revolts in San Lina drawing more and more soldiers away from the front lines until the White Flag rebels felt confident, they had enough manpower to overwhelm the government forces and made a second large push with this one being much more successful and leading to them controlling the entire eastern side of the country along with many central northern provinces locking the Red Flag side almost exclusively to the peninsula San Lina rests on and the northern province above it increasing their desperation for numbers and starting another mass conscription drive in San Lina leading to some of the worst riots the city has ever seen costing millions in damages and killing hundreds, after the riots finally calmed the rioters declared their allegiance to the White Flag party and after almost a month of fighting and desertions on the Red Flag side San Lina was captured and ceded to the White Flag rebels finally forcing the battered and depopulated government forces to surrender to the rebels | ||
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===Climate and environment=== | ===Climate and environment=== | ||
The climate of Puertego is largely subtropical with the country's environment being made up of many forests in the south and central regions along with the western peninsula of the country and prairies in the northern parts of the country which eventually fade into small temperate forests which turn into the nations hot and humid rain forests, the eastern parts of the country are very mountainous and hilly. The country gets an average of 1132.84 millimeters (44.6 inches) of rain annually with the southern areas getting as much as 1574.8 millimeters (62 inches) of rain annually, temperatures across the country reach a high of | The climate of Puertego is largely subtropical with the country's environment being made up of many forests in the south and central regions along with the western peninsula of the country and prairies in the northern parts of the country which eventually fade into small temperate forests which turn into the nations hot and humid rain forests, the eastern parts of the country are very mountainous and hilly. The country gets an average of 1132.84 millimeters (44.6 inches) of rain annually with the southern areas getting as much as 1574.8 millimeters (62 inches) of rain annually, temperatures across the country reach a high of 27.7 degrees Celsius (82 degrees Fahrenheit) with the southern parts of the country getting temperatures as high as 43.3 degrees Celsius (110 degrees Fahrenheit) in the summer and around. The country has had many natural disasters over its history with the most common one being floods, flooding has been thought to have caused as much as 710 million dollars in damage to Puertegan civilians and infrastructure. Puertego's environmental policy has also been extremely controversial with the country being regarded as very callous to environmental destruction including water pollution, air pollution, and deforestation, it has been hypothesized by researchers that many species native only to Puertego could go extinct in the next 20 years due to widespread destruction of their habitats if nothing is done about the countries deforestation and pollution. | ||
==Government and Politics== | ==Government and Politics== | ||