RECOGNIZING Portugal as one of the largest and most active non-English regions that has been home to a thriving community of Lusophone nations for over 15 years being the foremost example of how a minority language-based region can survive and thrive in the broader multiverse.
PRAISING the community's efforts to turn their region into a harbour of free-speech, free-expression and tolerance as defined by its constitution, while mantaining a funcionting democratic system with fair elections for Delegate every 6 months.
CELEBRATING Portugal's very own and unique culture, characterised by:
- Heated poltical debates intertwined with bits of relaxed and non-sensical banter;
- An over-the-top sense of national pride which has secured its independent status, having suffered 3 foreign invasions;
- Sebastianism, the belief that the region's founder will return in a foggy morning, on top of a white horse, to vanquish and solve all its problems.
AGRANDIZING the ideal that guides Portugal's policy towards other regions, and according to which all interregional contacts are based: the search and accommodation of all Portuguese-speaking communities and even individuals in all of its works, projects and day-to-day life.
APPLAUDING the organization of multiple international cultural initiatives focused on bringing the Portuguese language and traditions to a larger audience while strenghting ties with the dispersed lusophone community abroad, as are examples:
- Bi-annual Writing and Singing contests;
- A regularly published avant-garde magazine that pays homage to the Modernist movement;
- Several satirical comics inspired by the Latin mantra "ridendo castigat mores" (one corrects customs by laughing at them).
ADMIRING the innovative and novel concept behind Portugal's Map in which regional influence has a direct link to the portion of land a nation can settle.
REGARDING this Commendation as a tribute to everyone that somehow or in someway contributed to this region, throughout the more than a decade and a half of its existence.
HEREBY COMMENDS Portugal
Written in collaboration with the sovereign nations of Portugal
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