Imperial Brazil Surviving?

That is true, but as I said, political stability is not tied to government. But that's not where I was going with that. Like I said, part of the reason why the Old Republic was the way it was because it exacerbated the political instability due to the nature of how it came to power (through a coup against a largely popular institution that is the monarchy), and coupled with the power only benefiting a particular group (in this case the agrarian, in particular the coffee, oligarchs and the senior army officers.) I'm not saying that the monarchy made it stable, I'm saying that the reason why Brazil went unstable was largely because of the nature of how the new government came to power.

As a matter of fact Spain is a perfect example because Spain was not stable throughout the 19th century, largely because Revolutionary/Napoleonic France exacerbated the tensions between the Reactionary Conservatism and Enlightenment Liberalism, which was not helped by the mismanagement of Isabel II and her officials, nor the Carlists, nor the very chaotic First Spanish Republic.
 
Vis-a-vis the Sweden comparison, in a cultural, historical, tourist-y sense, an "Empire" (are there "empires" left?) of Brazil that had a resident constitutional monarchy with a royal family (unlike say Canada, Belize or the Caribbean countries) it would make it stand out on the western hemisphere, especially in comparison to the upteen number of republics that surround it. Even in terms of pageantry and protocol it would stand out.

"Visit the Brazilian empire! We can into monarchy surrounded by republics!" I can imagine the magazines, heh
 
Sorry for the double post

Respectfully, I find it pretty delusional to think that the simple presence of a chief of state can change a nation's fate during the 19th and 20th century. The continuation of the Brazilian Empire doesn't lead us to think that we would have a radical shift in Brazilian political or economic culture, IMHO it's quite naive to think that way.

Just now I saw your comment, well, this is NOT only about having the empire to continue, but also about preventing the events that followed the republican coup

over 10 thousand people died during the sword republic, the economy crashed in 1890, our navy rebelled twice, and the oligarchs took full control of the country, and stalled Brazil in the late 19th century until the 1930 revolution

By aborting the 1889 coup you change or avoid those events, and anything to come in the 20th century sin't going to be as harsh like we had on the old republic, and this is one decisive factor. When president Prudente de Moraes took over he had to rebuild a lot of Brazil from the zero, and the dissent continued to the decades to come, until it became unsustainable

To make a point, the empire isn't perfect, but almost everything is better than allowing the events to go as OTL

Edit: This also would prevent us from adopting this piece of junk of a flag for four days:
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(this was the first flag of the republican Brazil, the army also renamed the country name to "united states of brazil")
 
I thought they called it the "Republic of the United States of Brazil" (which is pretty funny because redundancy and it still falls under the People's Republic of Tyranny trope.)

Admittedly though, I'm not fan of the U.S. knockoff flag, but I did like one of the conceptual flag designs for Brazil, as seen here.
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Well... I am making a TL about a possible way the monarchy would have survived: D.Pedro II having a male heir alive and well.

Also a reason you guys are forgetting: Isabel was a woman is a extremely Patriarchal society that would never had completely agreed with a women as Empress with a French as Emperor.
 
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