The Brazilian Belindia may also be understood as the productive South, whose half a dozen of states create most of the wealth, and the rent seeking North, whose almost couple of dozen states depend on the federal dole for their subsistence. This is further institutionalized by the northern states having more representatives per capita than the southern ones, thanks to the floor of representatives awarded small states put in place by the military dictatorship and embraced by the self proclaimed enlightened democrats afterwards. While in the South there’s been a tradition of classic liberalism, like the Liberal Institute, for decades, the leaders of all but the center left parties speak with a northeasterrn accent. In the end, it’s the old and universal pretense of democracy of the wolves and the sheep voting on what’s for dinner.