Backstory of the Tecnocracia Brasileira (Brazillian Technocracy):
The Brazillian people, on the third millenium, were the most advanced polities inside the Galactic Empire, aways valorizing technical knowledge, they were responsible for the discovery and proto-research on trans-newtonian theory and technology, they also were the people who invented the jump drives, cloak devices, UV Laser turrets and many other wondrous technogical wonders that amazed the entire galaxy.
Once the Alien Holocaust began, not even their awesome tech was able to hold their vastly superior foe, so, after many years fighting, they decided that the time had come to build and drive a generation ship, the "Exodo da Civilização" (Exodus of Civilization), because they had such limitations on their ship designs, there wasn´t much space on the ship, and only a few hundred thousand were allowed, selected trough a rigorous and methodical exams of technical and theoretical expertise on all the sciences, even the "social" sciences, like philosophy and sociology, there was not a single feld of expertised that wasn´t filled by the greatest minds of its time.
So they reached the German nebula just a few months after the Commonwealth, the encounter didn´t issued any paricular reaction from the other colonists, and they werent specially interested in politics, let politicians deal with such ideologies and similar dogmatic thinking, there was science to be done, and by the Emperor, it would be done. But, as the years passed, the lack of a organized, decision-making body became evident, they aways became the last to make decisions about the isues of the fleet, and this was endangering the whole mission, so, after much deliberation, they´ve decided to take inspiration from Plato and his Republic, a government of the best, not of philosophers, but of academicians and technicians, of the elightement over the base desires of the masses, knowledge, not ideology (and certainly not religion), would be finally the most important qualification for a good governor, so they have developed their own system of government, the technocracy, the government of the most inteligent and knowledgeable, every official, from the lowest to the highest had to pass exams to be able to occupy such positions, not only exams of knowledge, but psyhiatric, psychological and physiological also,they needed to be hisically and mentally fit to govern, always (altough some critized this kind of criteria, instead of embracing the diversity of personalities and quirks that helped the advancement of science so many times before, now they were trying to padronize and making sure every government official was similar, mentally, to one another). One surprising consequence of such shift, was aproximation of the Technocracy with the chinese Celestial Empire, their current emperor, a studied man, saw the many similarities betwen the confucian bureocracy and the brazilian meritocracy, this is true to this day, altough they have lost contact due to the circustances surrounding Planetfall, this affinity continue to this day.
At the Conference of Offenbach, the Technocracy even tried to make out some kind of treaty with the other remaining factions, but they proved to be inept diplomats, as their every attempt of at least share scientific advancement was met with resistance, and so, the Brazillian decided to redtire themselves from the negotiations table.
Their capital city is Nova Recife.