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[]
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.