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Country Profile: Brazil (1895)

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Overview:

-Country name (long form): United States of Brazil.
-Head of State and Government: Prudente de Morais.
-Government type: federative presidentialist republic.
-Capital: Rio de Janeiro.
-Population: 15,000,000.
-Land area: 8,303,361 sq km.
-Administrative divisions (20 states, 1 federal district): Alagoas, Amazonas, Bahia, Ceará, Distrito Federal, Espírito Santo, Goyaz, Maranhão, Matto Grosso, Minas Geraes, Pará, Parahyba, Paraná, Pernambuco, Piauhy, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catharina, São Paulo, Sergipe.
-Official language: Portuguese.
-Religion: there's no official religion, but the vast majority of Brazilians are Roman Catholics.

Economy: largely based on the export of commodities, coffee in particular. Incipient industry.

Diplomacy:

Allies: Chile, the Latin League (Spain, Italy).
Friendly: Argentina.
Neutral: everyone else.
Strained: none.
War: none.

Ministry of War:

Desired manpower for 1896 (including officers and enlisted, the total will be added to the standing military each June):

Army: 105,000
Navy: 33,000 (10,000 Marines).

Standing Military:

Army: 95,000 men.
Equipment:
-Mauser M1895 rifles.
-Vickers machine-guns: 1 per company (160 men).

30,000 Vickers machine-guns have been ordered and shall be delivered at the rate of 2,500 per month, beginning in January of 1896.

Navy:

-4 Battleships: Brasil (1864), Lima Barros (1865), Riachuelo (1883), Aquidaban (1885).
-3 Cruisers: Almirante Tamandaré (1890), Benjamin Constant (1892 - used for training, but it has the size and the armament of a cruiser), República (1892).
-5 Wooden Sloops and Corvettes: Nichtheroy (Corvette - 1862), Trajano (Sloop - ?), Guanabara (Corvette - 1877), Parahyba (Sloop - 1878), Primeiro de Março (Sloop - 1881).

-7,500 Marines, equiped with the same rifles and machine-guns as the Army.

4 Brandenburg class battleships have been ordered and shall be delivered at the rate of 1 per 9 months, with the first one scheduled to September of 1896.


Reserves: 200,000 men.
Avaliable manpower: 3,000,000 men.