The Free Land of ECC Portugal is a huge, genial nation, notable for its avowedly heterosexual populace, complete lack of prisons, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, cynical population of 883 million Portuguese are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lisbon. The average income tax rate is 18.8%.

The very strong Portuguese economy, worth 72.2 trillion Euros a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 81,762 Euros, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.5 times as much as the poorest.

Power stations shutting down at night has made bedtime reading tricky, plain-clothes police officers follow Dàguó tourists everywhere they go, law schools are hurrying to teach the "prank defense" to their students, and it is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. ECC Portugal's national animal is the Iberian Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

ECC Portugal is ranked 97,585^th in the world and 5,195^th in Lazarus for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 1,500.02 on the Gilded Widget Scale.