You're wrong, Mrdarklight. The soviets also put a man in the moon less than 2 years after the americans. And the russians were the first ones to put a man in space also. In fact, the Apollo Program was developed by a team whose leader was Von Braun, the former german nazi scientist who invented the V1 and V2 missiles. German technology. But the russians also used german scientists of their own.
Nuclear weapons were invented in your country, but again the project was leaded by german (jew) scientists like Mr. Albert Einstein, a fugitive from the nazis.
The main difference between your country and probably the majority of the others was the economical power you accumulated during the XIX and XX centuries. Just that.
What has Brazil done that no other country has done? How have they contributed to the world, in culture, or religion, or science? Or militarily?
Lets see. I think I can answer that, because I`m brazilian.
The airplane, for example, was not invented by the Wright Brothers as you think. It was invented by a brazilian named Alberto Santos Dummont and presented to the World in 1906, in Paris. The W. Brothers proclaimed themselves the inventors and presented their airplane more than 2 years after Dummont. Only the US recognizes them. No excuses for that. That man also invented, the first dirigible with a gas motor and the clocks attached to the pulse as they are used nowadays.
Here, was invented a much more efficient alternative combustible, during the 70`s, based on alcohol. We didn`t have the luck the americans had to discover gold after their independence. Europeans took almost all of it, and of course it had a lot of influence in our more recent past. We were a colony of exploration as the entire latin America. We pay for it just as the british empire paid the consequences of the world wars. Imagine your country if there was only the escravagist south, and nothing of the free industrial north. Got the point?
Money determines the progress of a nation, undeniably. And, of course, in comparison to you, we are poorer, and less industrialized. But we have our prós too. We are far better than you in diplomacy for example. Doubt of that? Try to find who hates us diplomatically around the world. Also, we have marks known all around the world such as Petrobras, Pelé, InBev, etc. Cultural icons as the Bossa Nova, the Samba
We are also a country with continental size and that has control of a lot of resources such as potable water, iron, niobium, lots of woods and biodiversity.
Some historical curiosities:
We had, during the XIX century, the third navy among the entire world, during the period Pedro II was the emperor.
We won a war against a government from Paraguay that outnumbered our army in a 4:1 proportion at the same time you were in your Civil War.
We fought the Second World War, with an expressive participation in the italian scenario, and also as a supporter of rubber, gas, iron and military bases for the allies after 1942.
Yes, we had incidents during our history. We had dictators (the last time, they were supported by the U.S.), we have poverty, but I can count a number of countries that also are in the Civ series that have poverty, such as India, Europe during the majority of its history and even your America.
We are not frequently involved in wars. We're not a warmongering country since the XIX century. We had a lot of wars, rebellions and conflicts in our own territory during the last 3 centuries. But we keep if for ourselves. Its our nature. I don't blame. I don't regret that. In fact, I'm a bit proud.
I don`t know if there were better civs to put. People use the word "civilization" because its the name of the game. But if we are too demanding, there won`t be much civs to play.
Think in Bizancio as only a city surrounded by enemies, and in the Statue of Liberty as a ugly dwarven maiden forged around sea. A corthesy from France, as Cristo for us.
Think in Poland as a country that never extended to an empire.
Think in the Zulu as a tribe and nothing more.
How about Ethiopia?
Maybe there are arguments against the choose of Brazil as a nation among the ones playable in BNW. But your arguments are not very good themselves.
