Features of the postulated future include an Earth governed by a World Federation in which Brazil has become the paramount great power, with Terran space travel monopolized by a Brazilian-dominated agency called the Viagens Interplanetarias ("Interplanetary Tours" in Portuguese).
In this imagined future, Earth is ruled by a World Federation.  Brazil has risen to prominence as the leading nation, and its space exploration agency, Viagens Interplanetarias ("Interplanetary Tours"), controls all Terran space travel.