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The so-called "Pioneer of Laissez-Faire Ecology," Nogueira got rich from UNSA incentives for not farming rainforest land in South America, and in the process helped stabilize Earth's fluctuating oxygen levels during the 22nd century.

Strategy[]

When you assign the common governor - Rafael Francisco Nogueira - to a city, facilities in that city that increase the world's oxygen levels will increase oxygen levels even more.

Level Cards Strength Effect 1
I 1 +10% Oxygen Growth
II 6 +20% Oxygen Growth
III 16 +30% Oxygen Growth
IV 31 +40% Oxygen Growth
V 56 +60% Oxygen Growth
VI 91 +80% Oxygen Growth
VII 136 +100% Oxygen Growth
VIII 196 +120% Oxygen Growth
IX 271 +140% Oxygen Growth
X 371 +200% Oxygen Growth

Lore[]

Rafael Francisco Nogueira Lore

There is a belief in business that two sorts of people exist: those who find ways to make themselves rich, and those who rely on government aid to stay afloat. But there are also those wily businessmen like Rafael Francisco Nogueira who exist at the intersection of these ideas: he learned through years of studying global markets that once you sense the winds of change, you can find money simply falling from the sky and position yourself to catch it.

Nogueira entered real estate at a time when few would wish to make a home anywhere on Earth. While the worst of the Sundering was over, the shockwaves of the event could still be felt across the globe, including in the delicate ecosystem of South America's rainforests. Rafael's colleagues sought to expand development projects into the jungle to make up for their profound losses, but the newly empowered UNSA was bearing down on them, levying huge penalties for clear-cutting the land that could be used to re-stabilize the planet. And while they sank billions into fighting the UNSA in court, Nogueira instead saw an immense opportunity in the subsidies being offered to preserve the rainforest.

Rather than buying land to build condos, he shaped his business around buying wilderness property on the cheap, and then sitting on it and cashing his subsidy checks. It soon became clear that he could turn a significant profit through minimal conservation effort, simply by claiming as much land as possible and doing nothing with it. By the time the UNSA caught wind of Nogueira's strategy he had laid claim to two-thirds of the Amazon, as well as an enormous fortune.

This approach to the biosphere business, which Rafael himself dubbed "laissez-faire ecology," appealed greatly to the Horizon Corporation. They decided to hire Nogueira, knowing that as forests began to sprout on Mars and Venus, the people invested in those planets' successful terraformation would be dependent upon the greenery which they owned. Nogueira, now wealthy beyond his wildest dreams, was happy to take his legitimate enterprise beyond the stratosphere, especially as it helped him avoid any number of lawsuits from the UNSA headed his way.

Trivia[]

  • The name "Nogueira" is Portuguese, implying that he is Brazilian.
  • He is of Latino origin.
Governors
Common FFI icon Aria "Baby Boom" Alvarez · UNSA icon Dae-Hyun Yu · SoH icon Elle De León · HC icon Faizah Kirmani · UNSA icon Frank M. Srikar · SoH icon Gwynn Badejo · DoG icon Kainoa Akna Kalani · FFI icon Lola Faradova · UNSA icon Malakai Folau · DoG icon Miguel Akna Henriquez Sepúlveda · SoH icon Minh Tran · FFI icon Olivia Stein · HC icon Rafael Francisco Nogueira · FFI icon Raj Ahmad Shah · HC icon Robert J. Gould · DoG icon Sendhil Sharma · HC icon Temmujin Battulga · HC icon Tomoya Mukai · UNSA icon Yvonne Genet · SoH icon Zeke Peña · DoG icon Zora Ikhwezi Michel
Rare UNSA icon Anyu Peratrovich · FFI icon Ayzia Aoyama · SoH icon Bom Pryde · UNSA icon Etta Thitapura · HC icon Ida Ayu Laksmi Dewi · UNSA icon Johanna Longhair · DoG icon John Neherua · FFI icon Justus Black · FFI icon Makuahanai "Duke" Kalama · SoH icon Pim Jansson · DoG icon Sofia Ishtar Batma · SoH icon Steve · HC icon Xochi Vela · DoG icon Yuna Freyja Song · FFI icon Yusuf Mardin
Epic UNSA icon Buzz Sullivan · FFI icon Celicia Quispe, Ph.D · UNSA icon David Munoz · HC icon Nubia Matiba · FFI icon Kaz Kojima · DoG icon Rebecca Freyja O'Rourke · SoH icon Rex Jansson · SoH icon Te Hau Arataki · HC icon Vivica Matiba-Cavalcanti · DoG icon Zhou Xi Wang-mu Lee
Legendary DoG icon Alana Freyja Lee · HC icon Appolo Matiba · FFI icon Hoku Au · FFI icon Keahi Malae · UNSA icon Layla al-Battani · Lea · SoH icon Neil Jansson
Note: The governors whose names are written in italics are outpost governors.
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