Portugal currently has 682 citizens.

328 are trying to hurt someone, 243 are trying to make money, and the remaining 111 haven't decided what pays better.

Keep that 111 in mind. We'll come back to them.

THE DAMAGE

Portugal dealt 53.00 million damage today.

That brings the country's all-time recorded damage to 10.85 billion - which means today's headline-grabbing rampage moved the lifetime total by roughly 0.49%. History will barely notice. The Netherlands will notice immediately.

Speaking of which: today's targets were -

• Netherlands - 36.39M

• Ghana - 7.31M

• South Africa - 4.54M

• Luxembourg - 1.67M

• Iraq - 540.03K

• Nigeria - 473.19K

• Djibouti - 182.28K

• Laos - 73.18K

The Netherlands alone absorbed roughly 69% of Portugal's entire daily damage output. This wasn't a "largest target." This was the plan, and the other seven countries were what happened to Portugal's attention span afterward.

Current potential damage sits at 433.96M, of which 53.00M was actually spent - about 12% of what was available. There is therefore ~381M damage currently doing nothing, like a gym membership.

Meanwhile, the damage-build population has grown from ~302 to 329 citizens in a week - up about 9%.

Population, over the same week, is down about 9%.

Portugal isn't really losing citizens. It's converting them.

THE PILL SITUATION

Portugal used 95 pills today for 53.00M damage - which works out to roughly 558,000 damage per pill. Somewhere there is a pharmacist who deserves a medal, or an investigation.

Over the last seven days: 1,205 pills, averaging ~172 per day, or one pill for every four citizens, every single day, whether they asked for it or not.

This is not a statistic that appears in most national development plans. It probably should.

THE POPULATION

Today: +4 new accounts, -14 inactive, net -10.

Over seven days: -68 citizens.

At first glance this looks like a decline.
At second glance: Damage-build population, above, +9%.

Portugal isn't shrinking so much as reallocating.

THE ECONOMY

Portugal currently has 184 companies and 319 workers.

Of those, 180 companies and 312 workers arrived in just the last seven days.

Which means Portugal's entire pre-existing corporate sector consists of 4 companies and 7 employees, who are presumably very tired and slightly confused about all the new hires.

Company bonuses, for the record:

Cocain: +25.5%

Iron: +30%

Grain: +30%

Livestock: +30%

Food, industry, livestock, and an unusually well-optimized pharmaceutical sector, all built essentially overnight by four founding companies and their 312 new co-workers.

No further conclusions will be drawn.

THE PARLIAMENT

37 seats. 6 parties. Majority threshold: 19.

Espada Tuga (ET) holds 23 seats (62.2%) on 195 votes (62.5%) - a rare case of the electoral system and the outcome roughly agreeing with each other.

Two more parties, Quinto Império and PSN – Partido Sebastianista Português, hold zero seats and zero votes. They participate in Portuguese democracy the way a coat rack participates in a dinner party - present, technically in the room, not really contributing.

THE INTERESTING PART

Portugal is classified as Bipolar, which is generous.

Six parties exist on paper. In practice there is Espada Tuga, and then everyone else splitting the leftovers like it's a group dinner where one person ordered a steak and everybody else is sharing a breadbasket.

ENP: 2.36. Effectively, a two-party system where one of the parties is imaginary.

Democracy is the way!! or communism? I don't know.

VOTER TURNOUT

April - 11% · May - 10% · June - 28% · July - 50% · August - 48%

Something happened between May and July that took turnout from "why bother" to "actually showing up," and whatever it was, it's already fading - this election drew 312 votes, 16 fewer than last time.

Portuguese democracy: alive, functional, and still can't commit to a schedule.

SAD

35 citizens not drafted

5 traitors this week

24.4 gold in public spending this week

0 gold in contracts

Five traitors and zero gold in contracts in the same week feels less like coincidence and more like a business model.

SO, WHAT IS PORTUGAL?

Not a military powerhouse. Not an economic one either, strictly speaking - most of that economy was incorporated sometime after last Tuesday. Not a balanced political system by any honest reading of a 62%-seat supermajority.

It is, instead, a country of 682 citizens where:

• 329 are on damage build

• 4 companies and 7 workers actually predate this week

• 95 pills turned into 53M damage

• 69% of that damage went to one increasingly unfortunate country

• One party holds 23 of 37 seats

• Turnout tripled, then immediately started having second thoughts

And 111 citizens, as of this morning, still hadn't decided whether they were here to fight or to profit.

Given everything above, that might be the most undecided anyone in Portugal has been about anything.

Conclusion

The economy exists, mostly since last week.

The parliament works, technically, for one party.

The military is busy, mostly with the Netherlands.

The pills are being consumed at a rate that outpaces most explanations.

And somewhere, 111 citizens are still thinking it over.

Therefore everything is proceeding normally.
- Lusa

Who is she? An unknown commander?

- Codename: Prescription