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On the other link aggregation website, there is a subreddit "PORTUGALCYKABLYAT" full of maps where Portugal has more statistical similarities to Eastern European countries than ones geographically closer to it. I can't be bothered to check if we have a federated version of that yet.
Are there certain factors that lead to this?
Roughly it's probably: eastern Europe is poor because of its communist past, Portugal because of its remoteness and too hot climate?
Just wildly guessing, I don't have a scientific explanation.
*Eastern Europe is poor because of the criminal privatisation of public property and society in general AKA economic shock therapy.