Portugal

The Black Templars Empire of Portugal(Imperio Santissimo des Santcum Cruzzados Niggras de Grã Lusitania, Enlgish), O Santo Império dos Cruzados Negros de Portugal (Portuguese) is a huge continental Empire, located in the Middle of the Iberian Peninsula. It's current leader is The Holy Emperor Theodor II, son of Alexis IV, he is also named as "The Angel Emperor", for hes deeds of justice and peace. Asgarnnia is also one of the founding members of the ODN.

Military
Portugal had a long story of wars for power and expansion, in wich during the Fifth Holy Crusade ( 500-564 after Bruno I) the Black Templars seized power, their leader Gustav of Varrock, son of Emperor Gabriel III instating an Empire controled by the Templars.

Portugal weponry is, acording to CN timeline, "Modern" located in a near future ( around year 2100 in RL time), the use of plasma as energy and weponry is frequent, the main battlefield veichle is the Avatar Tank and the main navy ship is the Xeno Class Batllecruiser, wich is a simbol of pride for Asgarnnian Military, the current force is about 100,000 men and woman, with another 150,000 in reserves for the Army. The Navy counts with around 400 ships, 20 submarines and 10 aircraft carriers, with around 50,000 assets, including marines, enginers, gunmen and oficials. Asfor the Airforce, it counts with 270 air aircrafts and 100 bomber deploid in the borders and ready for every fight.

The currnet High Marshal is Moises Pedrus and the Minister od Defence is Alexandros Dalim. The Chief of State is General Miguel S'Jet, war hero during the invasion of Galicis.

The Army currently as 5 main Armies and 2 fleets, one of the armies is the Back Templars Chapters

Economy
Portugal economy is not the strongest in the region, but good enough to present it's inhabitants with a decent quality of life, compared to many war-torn nations around the World. The main industry is mining, metalurgie and car-making, agriculture is mainly made by robots and great part of the population has an average life quality of 15% higher then any region.

Budgets

Administration: $567,663,843,600.00 16% Social Welfare: $283,831,921,800.00 8% Healthcare: $567,663,843,600.00 16% Education: $1,028,890,716,525.00 29% Religion & Spirituality: $0.00 0% Defence: $0.00 0% Law & Order: $283,831,921,800.00 8% Commerce: $0.00 0% Public Transport: $248,352,931,575.00 7% The Environment: $0.00 0% Social Equality: $567,663,843,600.00 16%

Economic Status

Exchange Rate: 2.0810 Kavorkian Scarves = $1 Gross Domestic Product: $5,354,964,896,684.27 GDP Per Capita: $9,329.21 Unemployment Rate: 8.69% Consumption: $1,735,776,000,000.00 Government Budget: $3,942,110,025,000.00 Government Expenditures: $3,547,899,022,500.00 Goverment Waste: $394,211,002,500.00 Exports: $700,298,805,434.27 Imports: $629,008,931,250.00 Trade Surplus: $71,289,874,184.27

Import and Export

Portugal's main Export is gold and cattle, wich gives it millions of Kavorkian Scarfs. Portugal's main trading partners are Vizion, Kernwaffen, and some other guy.

Comunication and transports

Portugal is the largest comunication center in the world, over 400 satelites are in space giving 24/7 comunications betwen all points of the nation and region, the lines of huge highways that cross the desrt are remarkable, and many Companies, like AsgDes make millions in public transport during the desert, by train or by plane. The Goverment as an Space Company wich makes high speed travels betwen the World in just a few minutes, altough it's cost may reach 100 thousand Kavorkain Scarfs.

Religion, culture and language
Most of the population is part of the Imperial Cult, a cult for the Emperors that was started when Bruno I took over Portugal and finished the Dark Wars. About 87% of the population is in that cult, the remaining 13% are mainly Chrsitian or Athieist.

Portugal's culture is, since the Dinasty of the Romania, Pos-futuristic Latin, in wich the antion resembles the Roman Empire, altough with much more technological advances. Fashion, in on eway, as like many others aspects of the Empire, are turned to military, camo clothes are extremely frequent, houses with bullet protection, armored cars, and huge military training areas for civilians are scatered across the Empire. The felling that death is near is always with us and people do not fear death, but instead they fight it, wich shows the Asgarnnian's the last to leave a fight or a disaster area.

Population and Languages

People speaking Asgarnnian: about 70 million People speaking Daghezy  : about 10 million People speaking Hiigaran : about 2 million People speaking English  : about 1 million

Schools are obliged to teach Asgarnnian, altough many don't respect this, because of the dificulty level of the Lingua Franca in the Empire.

Goverment and Colonies
Portugal is a Libertarian Police State, it is currently in the year 1023 a.B. and it is allied with most of the nations in it's region, it's colonies of Cyberia and Asgarnia are located in other regions. The Goverment is looking for a prosperous Nation, trying to eleminate Left-Wingers and radicals, many nations blame Portugal for ambiental impacts in the region, but for some of them Portugal as only replyed with Nuclear Strikes and Orbital Bombardments for the SDN (Space Defence Network). The Templars pay the military from their own pockets, so the goverment doesn't spent a penny on it, concentrating in Social Welfare and Law and Order.

The Goverment is also worryed with black comunities pockets in Drillon (known as Niggras Possetes), their arrival from South as brought conflict and radical measueres, one of them made by minister on Internal Affairs Rodrigo Izmael, in wich he ordered the assasination, capture, and even torture of 500 toushand Niggras, the population made an huge uprising and murdered him in hes house, along with hes entire family. Hes folower, James Fausto, tryed to bring order, but quited after the death of 150 innocents in a gang war, the Black Templars did action for themselvs and attacked Drillon, the city was torned into dust with the death of 100 thousand people, in wich only 1o thousand was Niggra.

The Empire is governed by an Emperor, each Emperor as the right and uty to rule from hes crowning untill hes death, the Emperor seat is hereditary, being in all 2578 years of recorded history only existed 1 dinasty, altough before Bruno I there was no Portugal but a mass of diferent nations.

The Emperors are connected to the "Golden Throne", a machine that gives them phisical power beihond imagination, giving it's user the capability to life twice the normal time.

List of Emperors since Bruno I and their reigns

List of emperors and leaders of Portugal

Territory
Portugal is composed of 6 States, all of them under control of a Inquisitor, a man selected by the Black templars to rule the State, each state as it's own form of ruling, depending on the chapter of the Templars, altough many of them are ruled the same way, was described in the Book of Darkness.

States

Greater Lusitania- located in the nort reaches of the Empire, mainly desert, and plains

Hiigara- also desert, altough with some mountains, being the tallest mountain Cyrilica ( 7,5 KM), wich is also the highest mountain in the Empire.

Daghesky - the only tropical state in the Empire, it is ostly covered by florests, without any great altitudes, it's biggest river is river Taidanii, wich is also the biggest in the GAMU.

Lower Lusitania- located in the south areas, near to X Wings, it is mainly plains, with some forests in the nort side.

Outer Wastelands- located in the far East, it is a dead place, noone tryes to go in there and all the cities are located near the sea on in the edge of the Wastelands, the central area as the Durraky mountains and the Nort side as the city of Gulaskyet.

Western Beaches- the tursitic place of the Empire, lush forests, great beaches and cultural cities, they are the main reason people visit Asgarnnia.

Holidays
12th Augusta Celeste (7th January) Black Templars Day; 8th Menafastos (18th February) Founding Day; 5th of Garesky (10th July) the birthday of Emperor Bruno 7th Boilys (1th December) Unification Day;

Black Crusaders
see main article ( Black Crusaders )

Black Crusaders or Black Templars are the most important and powerfull branch of the army, being also the most influent group of people in asgarnnian society, they are composed by over 10 thousand units spreaded all overthe desert.

History of Templars

The Black Crusaders or Templars started out as simple mercineries during the Dark Wars, founded by a Monk in the Outer Wastelands, their main objective was to protect the Holy City, Nessaja, from Ork and Hiigaran invasions. After the war they started the Last Crusade against all Orks in the Newly founded Empire, and, in 304 in the battle of Narkovia, over 100,000 orks where anhilated, the last few survivors fleed to the sea and founded Dominicai.

In 567 during the Drillon fights Emperor Vladdimirov gave the Templars full power to keep peace, and after a rebellion to bring the Emperor down, the Templars destroyed Nessaja in order to protect the Emperor God,k and from that time they becamed guardians of the Emperor and Empire.