Name - República do Grão-Pará (Portuguese)

Head of state - Council of Administration (collective)

Head of government - President of the Council of Administration --------

Legislature - House of Representatives

Judiciary - Supreme Tribunal

Form of government - Unitary republic under a democratic directorial confidential constitution

Population - 17 million

Area -

Capital - Belém - 1,418,000 (city), 3,103,000 (metro)

Largest city - Barra [Manaus]- 2,429,000 (city), 4,284,000 (metro)

Language - Portuguese

Time zone -

Currency - Paranese escudo

Anthem -

Motto -

source

-Estado do Grao-Para+Mato Grosso+ San Joao das Duas Barras (in 1809 map)

-India rubber craze sparked by rise of Telegraphy > Submarine cables, Velocipedes, which use them

-in 1860s, rubber uses spark upwards massively, inspires production in many places incl. Grao-Para

-massive amounts of slave labor occurs in this rising trade

-both of black and indigenous slaves

-canals, railroads created to bring out rubber

-due to import of slaves from Africa, France tries to cut it off through various slave raids, forces Portugal to look elsewhere France's Wars > Franco-Portuguese War (1871-2)

-slave trade from southern US, which replaces this, this only cut off by US's Wars > American Civil War (1869-76)

-after ACW ends, Richmondite exiles leave, many to Grao-Para

-however, slavery still declines (slowly)

-slave trade becomes massive controversy as it makes headlines

-US organizes campaign against this, culminates in US's Wars > Intervention in Grao-Para (1894-5)

-Grao-Para internationalized, governed by Council of Administration under International Forum governance