Ecclesiar's world is about to change.

From September 4th onwards, war will no longer be that healthy game where one country invades another until it disappears from the map. Now we will have objectives, deadlines, negotiations, alliances with consequences, and even a history to record our decisions.

Finally.

Now we can do everything wrong, but with documentation.

While the world prepares for smarter wars, Brazil faces a far more complicated issue:

How to get rich?

Because conquering territory is great. It brings prestige, changes the map, and makes the general happy.

There's only one small drawback:

Territory alone does not produce.

Brazil could conquer Chile, paint the entire map green, and have a patriotic speech made. But if there's no industry, production, and infrastructure afterward, we'll just have a huge country with a huge bill.

And then comes the most dangerous idea ever presented to Congress:

economic development.

Yes, production.

  • Factories.

  • Companies.

  • Infrastructure.

Things that don't explode, and for that very reason, tend to receive less applause.

The curious thing is that everyone is already thinking about the nuclear arms race.

We want to know who will have the bomb.

Who will have more bombs?

Who will succeed in destroying whom?

But there's an inconvenient question:

Who's going to manufacture all of this?

Because perhaps the real Brazilian nuclear arms race won't begin with a missile.

Start with a factory.

The government can continue arguing about who is imperialist, socialist, centralist, or any other word that makes it seem like we're doing politics.

But at the end of the day, someone needs to produce something.

Perhaps Brazil's greatest enemy is not its neighboring country.

Perhaps it's the old habit of thinking that power is built solely by conquering territory.

The new Ecclesiasticus will teach something interesting:

Wars have a time limit. Occupations are temporary. Alliances are expensive. And even bombs can be neutralized.

The economy, however, continues to collect rent.

So perhaps it's time for Brazil to achieve something truly difficult:

wealth.

Then we make the bomb.

Or not.

It depends on how much the factory costs.

The fool of the republic