Laurentian Republic

Heads of Laurentia

Statistics

Name - République Laurentienne (French) / Laurentian Republic (English)
Continent - Americas
Capital - Montreal

Administration

Head of state - Grand Elector François Aldini
Head of government - President of the Council of State Antoine Fitzgerald
Legislature - National Assembly
President of the National Assembly - Laurent Bouchard
Judiciary - Supreme Court
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court - Claude Faucher
Form of government - Unitary republic under a democratic presidential confidential constitution
Form of law - Brougham Code (commercial), Cambacérès Code (civil, criminal, procedure)
Demonym - Laurentian, Laurentien

Geography

Area - 865,639 km^2
Largest cities
-Montreal - 4,213,000 (city), 7,031,000 (metro)
-Quebec - 625,000 (city, 1,251,000 (metro)
-Prevostville [Sherbrooke] - 267,000 (city), 623,000 (metro)
Time zone: TMP-06:00
Currency - Laurentian aigle

Demography

Language - French, English (co-official)
Population - 13,401,000
Density - 15.48/km^2

Symbols

National festival - Citadelle Day (April 12) - commemorating the Declaration of the Citadel (1888) and the Declaration of Independence (1937)
Anthem - La Marseillaise Occidentale
Motto - En avant

Notes

-less migration into US due to more industry

-plus more immigration due to Montreal being world city

-and also because US locked to Irish migration for a while due to US's Wars > Luisiana War (1825-8) being contemporaneous, resulting in many more Irish into Lower Canada

-also no cholera quarantine mean way fewer people die

-and less birthrate collapse due to less ultramontanism resulting in less powerful reaction

Flag

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Government structure

-head of state is Grand Elector

-practically powerless


-run by a President of Council of State, nicknamed President, in clear Amerophilia

-elected by National Assembly

-manages a Council of State


-legislature is a unicameral National Assembly

-elected by multi-member districts

History

Laurentian Crisis (1886-8)

-longstanding resent of British Empire throwing Metis under the bus
-when Heads of Laurentia > 1886-1888 François Mercier (Société des Laurentiens Unis) comes to power he seeks to secede from British Empire

-brings together convention dominated by the Société

-St. Lawrence is blocked for a time
-which brings US over to resolve it

-and causes huge trade crisis

-in the end resolved by agreement of giving Laurentia virtual independence
-and only nominally still within the British Empire

Largest cities

Rank City Department City proper Metropolitan population
1 Montreal Montréal 4,213,000 7,031,000
2 Chomedey[1]Laval

 Montréal 819,000 7,031,000[2]Part of Montreal Metro Area
3 Quebec Saint-Charles 625,000 1,251,000
4 Longueuil Montréal 432,000 7,031,000[2]Part of Montreal Metro Area
5 Prevostville[3]Sherbrooke

 Saint-François et Magog 417,000 623,000
6 Repentigny Montréal 318,000 7,031,000[2]Part of Montreal Metro Area
7 Mercier[4]Labrador City

 211,000 323,000
  1. Laval

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  2. Part of Montreal Metro Area

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  3. Sherbrooke

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  4. Labrador City

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