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United Mexican States
 * Goverment: The goverment is currently ruled by the center-left party National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), having Gustavo Cárdenas Coffigny as president. Cárdenas has been focusing in improving the quality of life of the mexican population, as well as promoting nationalism. Relations are also improved with Mexican allies, as Mexico plans to increase its involvement in the international stage. Not much changes, and the goverment stays pretty much the same.
 * Politics: As stated before, the ruling party is MORENA, which has held control over the presidency since late 2040s. The three main political parties are PAN, a right wing party that has many support in the northern states and that has existed since 1930s, and PRI, (which is the traditonal officialist party of Mexico, but that has lost popularity since 2040s) a centrist party that has some support in the central states (except Mexico City/Tenochtitlán). MORENA has a majority in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, although PAN leads an important opposition force and they are polling well for the 2066 presidential elections, since people are starting to get tired of the leftist goverment.
 * Military: Note: Mexico uses "Great" for all of their army branches.
 * Great Mexican Army (GEM):  Next turn.
 * Great Mexican Air Force (GFAM): Next turn.
 * Great Mexican Navy (GAM): Next turn
 * Land Forces:  Next turn
 * Wars & Conflicts:
 * War on Drugs: Surprisingly enough, the Mexican goverment considers that the War on Drugs is not over yet, even though a massive crackdown on drug cartels occured in 2020s and 2030s. Drug cartels have been practically eradicated from the original mexican territory, but they are still a problem in central america and even some parts of California. Because of this, the president begins an extensive operation to take down the Sacramento Cartel, the second most powerful cartel in the country. Some high-ranked members of the Sacramento Cartel were arrested this year, which resulted in even more violence in northern California. Mexico declares that North California is in an state of emergency, and around 85,000 soldiers are sent to stabilize the region and continue to fight the Sacramento Cartel.
 * South American War: Mexico decides to inteven in favor of the Barquisimento Four by sending in 200,000 troops to fight against Chile and 97,000 to fight Peru. Extensive economical and technical support is also given to The Bolìvar, as they are currently having some trouble with the Brazilian Empire. After The Bolívar proposed a peace treaty, Mexico agreed with it and it is currently waiting for response from Rio de La Plata and the Brazilian Empire. However, the war in Bolivia-Peru continues.
 * Operación Lago Salado (Operation: Salt Lake): Mexico starts preparing Operación Lago Salado (Operation Lago Salado), which is a military intervention on the neighboor nation of Deseret which broke away from Mexico and the United Federation in 2030s. The objective is to recuperate Salt Lake City and the remaining parts of the Utah territory. Around 400,000 troops are being prepared for the Operation that will most likely start next year.
 * Research: The technological centre of the country is located in Houston, Texas (where the MASA was founded) and it currently has the biggest laboratory in the country, the Cabeza de Vaca Research Centre. Most of the country's scientists work in this massive building where they work on new technogloies everyday.
 * Analytics:
 * Space: After the end of the third Mexican-American war, Mexico took control of the NASA Space Centers in Houston, Texas, which resulted in the creation of MASA (Mexican Aeronautic and Space Administration). The MASA quickly began an space program, and by 2040 Mexico had one of the msot advanced space programs in the world thanks to their economical capacity. In 2043, the first formal space colony was set up in The Moon, "Ciudad Coyol" (in reference to Coyolxauhqi, the dismembered Mexica deity that became the Moon). In 2049 and 2061 respectively, two colonies in Mars were formed, "Olimpia" and "Nueva Tenochtitlán". Currently, the total number of people living in the three space colonies is around 2 million.
 * Economy: The mexican economy is one of the strongest in the world and currently increasing at a decent rate. The main economical activities are tourism, agriculture (which is practically industrial by now), mining and trade.
 * Education: The education system was revamped during the "Second Mexican Miracle" period, when the Right governed the country. Major teacher syndicates such as SNTE and CNTE were disbanded since they were seen as corrupt, although teachers were still allowed to create new syndicates but different strategies were used by the goverment to divide them and prevent them from becoming too powerful. After solving the syndicate issue, the entire education system was revamped in order to improve the quality of teachers and the different ways of learning. Thanks to this, the mexican education system is now one of the best in The Americas.
 * Culture: The mexican culture is considered one of the most diverse in the world thanks to the great quantity of languages and religions. Although some sections of the goverment think that merging cultures would be better, others think that diversity and multicultualism is good. Overall, the central part of the country (where most of the population lives) is considered from "Mexica/Aztec" culture, the northern part is considered from "Norteño" culture (with the main diference being religion and traditions, since traditionally the mexican northerns have taken a few elements from the american culture), with some american and matrionic minorities in north Texas, Utah and Colorado. The south is considered the most diverse area, as Mexicas and Mayans both have presence here. The south is also the strongest bastion of the Santería religion.
 * Population: Mexico always had a high fertility rate compared to other countries (around 2.8), so a three children or two children policy was never needed and it will never be necessary, although some concern is starting to appear about overpopulation, especially in the central part of the country (Tenochtitlán Metro). The population of Mexico in 2064 was 332,730,208. By the end of the year it had grown to 333,929,107.
 * Language: Mexico has 2 official language; Spanish and Nahuatl. English is co-official in some northern states as well. Nahuatl is the most widely spoken indigenous language along with Maya (which is also co-official in some areas in the south). The majority language is still Spanish, alhough certain indigenous languages that were expected to cease to exist by now, such as Nahuatl and Maya, actually became more popular during the brief Aztec Empire period. English is still spoken by a majority of the population as second language (around 54%) and 11% speak it as a mother language (mostly in the former american areas such as rural Texas, Colorado and Utah). This is because English is still taught in school, although students can also choose to study another tongye as second language (English is probably becomi irrelevant so). Overall, 98% of the population speaks Spanish, 54% speaks English as second language (11% as native) and 19% speaks some indigenous language (from which 69% is Nahuatl, 25% is Mayan and 6% is others)
 * Religion: Mexico has two leading religions, and two important minorities. Said religions are the Mexica religion, which is followed by the majority of the population (38%), Catholicism/Christianity/Protestanism (still praticed by 33% of the population), the Mayan religion with 10% of the population and Santería, followed by 6%. Nearly 7% of the population is agnostic, atheist or irreligious. The remaining 6% of the population is from another religion, mostly Matrionic and Inca (more detail on each religion will be given in future turns).
 * Diplomacy:
 * RFB: Mexico views The Bolívar as their closest ally, and because of this, relations are increasing constantly.
 * B4: Mexico agrees to join the Barquisimento Four and an official alliance is made with Bolivia, La Plata and the RFB. Relations increase with the four countries and Mexico sends extensive support to Bolivia against Peru.
 * ANSAC: The Mexican chancellor, Carmen Salinas, assists to the ANSAC meeting and protests about Dixie's and Deseret's  presence in the organization, stating that they will not join such alliance if these two countries are also on it.
 * Liberal States of America: An alliance, trade agreement and non-aggresion pact are proposed.
 * Bolivia: Relations are increased as they support them in their war against Peru and join B4.
 * Deseret: The few diplomatical relations sustained by the two countries are cut.
 * Cascadia: Mexico tries to improves its relations with Cascadia, proposing a free trade agreement and a non-aggresion pact.
 * Europe: Mexico watches the French-German crisis closely, without taking a side or adopting an official posture.