São Paulo is a releasable of 
Brazil. It was added on 10/14/22 along with other releasables in South America 
. It borders Brazil to the east, north, and north-west, the South Atlantic Ocean to the south, and (if released from Brazil) to the south-west. It can easily dominate South America.
Background
São Paulo (Portuguese pronunciation: [sɐ̃w ˈpawlu]) is one of the 26 states of the Federative Republic of Brazil and is named after Saint Paul of Tarsus.
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A major industrial complex, the state has 21.9% of the Brazilian population and is responsible for 33.9% of Brazil's GDP. São Paulo also has the second-highest Human Development Index (HDI) and GDP per capita, the fourth-lowest infant mortality rate, the third-highest life expectancy, and the third-lowest rate of illiteracy among the federative units of Brazil. São Paulo alone is wealthier than Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Bolivia combined. São Paulo is also the world's twenty-eighth-most populous sub-national entity and the most populous sub-national entity in the Americas. With more than 46 million inhabitants in 2019, São Paulo is the most populous Brazilian state, the most populous national subdivision in the Americas, and the third most populous political unit of South America, surpassed only by the rest of the Brazilian Federation and Colombia. The local population is one of the most diverse in the country and descended mostly from Italians, who began immigrating to the country in the late 19th century; of the Portuguese, who colonized Brazil and installed the first European settlements in the region; indigenous peoples, many distinct ethnic groups; Africans, who were brought from Africa as slaves in the colonial era and migrants from other regions of the country. In addition, Arabs, Germans, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, and Greeks also are present in the ethnic composition of the local population. The area that today corresponds to the state territory was already inhabited by indigenous peoples from approximately 12,000 BC. In the early 16th century, the coast of the region was visited by Portuguese and Spanish explorers and navigators. In 1532 Martim Afonso de Sousa would establish the first Portuguese permanent settlement in the Americas—the village of São Vicente, in the Baixada Santista. In the 17th century, the paulistas bandeirantes intensified the exploration of the colony's interior, which eventually expanded the territorial domain of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire in South America. In the 18th century, after the establishment of the Province of São Paulo, the region began to gain political weight. After independence in 1820, São Paulo began to become a major agricultural producer (mainly coffee) in the newly constituted Empire of Brazil, which ultimately created a rich regional rural oligarchy, which would switch on the command of the Brazilian government with Minas Gerais's elites during the early republican period in the 1890s. Under the Vargas Era, the state was one of the first to initiate a process of industrialization and its population became one of the most urban of the federation. The city of São Paulo, the homonymous state capital, is ranked as the world's 12th largest city and its metropolitan area, with 20 million inhabitants, is the 9th largest in the world and first in the Americas. Regions near the city of São Paulo are also metropolitan areas, such as Campinas, Santos, Sorocaba and São José dos Campos. The total population of these areas coupled with the state capital—the so-called "Expanded Metropolitan Complex of São Paulo"—exceeds 30 million inhabitants, i.e. approximately 75 percent of the population of São Paulo statewide, the first macro-metropolis in the southern hemisphere, joining 65 municipalities that together are home to 12 percent of the Brazilian population. |
Base Statistics
Economy
Sao Paulo makes $1,385,645 at the start of the game, it also starts as a regional power at the 18th ranking. $1,354,053 of its income comes from taxes and $31,592 from resources.
Resources
| Resources of Sao Paulo | |
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 Titanium
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+0.54 |
Military
Sao Paulo has the potential for a very powerful army early game due to its huge amount of square cities. Its manpower capacity is 647,027 with a gain of around 2,051 manpower every 5 days.
| Base Manpower Capacity of Sao Paulo per Conscription Law | |
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| The following columns below present the manpower capacity from lowest (Disarmed) to highest (Required). RP stands for "Recruitable Population". | |
| Disarmed [1% RP] |
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| Volunteer [2% RP] |
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| Limited [5% RP] |
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| Extensive [10% RP] |
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| Required [25% RP] |
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Geography
Most of Sao Paulo is Hilly with only the South being Semi-Mountainous. To the north of the Sao paulo releasable lay the Serra da Cantareira while in the south are Mantiqueira Mountain range.
When it comes to biomes most of the country has no specific biomes except the East which is in the Jungle biome. It also isnt affected by seasonal winter.
Cities
Sao Paulo has a total of 47 cities and 3 square cities. Sao Paulo's largest city is São Paulo with a base population of 18,883,200~ people. Its second largest city is Campinas with a base population of 2,796,600~, and its third largest city is Santos with a population of 1,712,400~ people. Sao Paulo's total population is 32,700,688.
Borders
Sao Paulo only borders one country which is Brazil. It also has a smaller population than Brazil and it has acces to the Antlantic Ocean.
Politics
Sao Paulo starts with the non-aligned ideology. It is a releasable of Brazil. Sao Paulo sadly has no formables it can form.
Strategy
To start of you need to go Brazil. Justify a liberation war on any small country/island and release Sao Paulo.
Starting Moves
- Start off with building one electronic, one steel, one motor, and one fertilizer factory. Make sure to get all the resources you need for these factories!
- After that try to build a few tanks, around 1k would be good and if you have enough Military Power assigning a general would be a good move but is not that important.
- You want to use your Political Power to move your conscription law to either Limited, Extensive, or Required. Whichever you choose is your choice, however it is recommended to go Limited instead of Extensive or Required. You will need the manpower granted by conscription laws to reinforce your army.
- Justify a war on
Uruguay. Declare war on both countries after you have finished your justifications and use your tanks to annex them. Make especially sure that you seize their treasury and resources. Alternatively, if all of Brazil is released, you will likely want to mop up all of the Brazilian releasables except for 
Amazonia. You may not want to take Amazonia as they have a low population, are entirely jungle, and your most precious resource, Manpower, will dwindle due to attrition. You may also decide to not take 
Nordeste, as they have a negligible population and your army could be better used elsewhere. - After this build 2-3 civilian factories and research Factory Output 2.
War with Argentina
- By now, you should've taken Uruguay.
- Build 4,000 tanks and while doing this, make sure your economy doesn't go insane. However, you can tank a deficit just below $2 million if you have enough treasury. You will be disbanding some of the tanks after the war anyway.
- Once you made all these tanks Justify a war on
Argentina. - Make some type of units which can damage the Argentina home guards anything like navy, artillery or airforce would work.
- Declare war and send all your tanks to the nearest city and wait for the tanks to entrench. Once the home guard is dead reinforce your stack.
- Once the stack is reinforced send all of it to occupy Buenos Aires, in the meantime make 100k infantry or 1k tanks. With those units naval invade in Argentinian
Patagonia. With the rest of the tanks you can freely autocapture.
After Argentinan war
Once Argentina collapses, you will want to annex them. You may want to focus on your economy, or you could continue expansion elsewhere. If you decide to expand in South America, here are some prime expansion targets:
- Chile - Chile has large amounts of copper and could easily support many electronics factories.
- Colombia & Venezuela - Both have large population counts and both have large amounts of oil which are very useful if you wish to create a large navy or tank army without oil expenditure. By taking this, you will also largely secure South America from an expansionist Mexico.
- Bolivia - Bolivia contains 3 tungsten, which is enough to support a motor parts factory. This can be doubled, through mines, to 6 tungsten so that you never have to worry about tungsten again.
- Mexico - Mexico has a very large population, and if there is no United States or the United States has decided not to expand into Mexico, the large population in Mexico could prove a boon in your conquests. Mexico also contains a lot of oil, which is always useful.
- Nigeria - Nigeria has a quite large population which can be exploited for large amounts of Manpower and Money.
- Sierra Leone - This country has a large amount of Titanium, about 2 units at the start of the game.
- South Africa - South Africa has a large population and 3 tungsten at the start of the game.
Once you've taken multiple or all of these nations, you may want to begin to attack stronger nations. If the USA is not being played, the massive population in the USA could easily catapult you to 1st rank great power if you were to take it. You could also expand into South East Asia, which has a large population overall and could provide a gateway into China or India. Taking India or China will be a massive boon to a world conquest. While this is happening, if you are so inclined, you may want to strike into and decimate Europe so that players in Europe will not be a threat to you, though this is aggressive and may lead to your untimely downfall.
Ideology
There are two routes most recommended to follow for ideology when playing as Sao Paulo. The first is communism which will help you strike hard against the countries that would usually be harder to invade like Brazil with all that extra manpower as well as gaining less war exhaustion and more output from your factories. The second route is fascism which is good for quickly expanding and overwhelming your enemies with your sheer size and low military upkeep; however, you will still gain the same amount of war exhaustion and sustaining a full scale war for a really long time will have long lasting damage to your stability.
Threats
- Brazil retaking you. (COMMON-UNCOMMON)
- Any nation colonizing the collapsed Brazil. (COMMON-UNCOMMON)
Portugal trying to reform the 
Portuguese Empire. (UNCOMMON-RARE)- After being formed by Uruguay,
Banda Oriental may want to expands further into Brazil. (RARE-SUPER RARE) - Any existing country expands into Brazilian releasables for easy population. (RARE)
- Any existing country expands to here for natural resources. (LEGENDARY)
Trivia
- Brazil consumes 1.6 million pizzas every day, of these, approximately 1 million are eaten in São Paulo.
- In 1958, a rhinoceros was a candidate in São Paulo's city council elections
| Removed | |
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| Europe |  Budjak
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| Asia |  Fujian •  Qinghai •  Sinkiang  South Ossetia
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