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The Most Prudent Republic of Gonâve is one of the many constituent republics of the United League and Covenant of the Americas. It is one of the republics ran by a minority elite, namely the White Gonâveans [primarily made out of French and Anglo-Latin populace], over a primarily Taino populace. It is a noted free state, with slavery being abolished in the 1960s in a move that deeply disgruntled the French of Saint-Domingue.

Now as the Imperium fractures, Gonâve is the most vulnerable of the republics of the League, as all of the insurgent forces in Saint-Domingue [all calling themselves Haiti] seeks designs on Gonâve as 'rightful Haitian land'.

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Doyens of the Most Prudent Republic of Gonâve (1899-????)
Tegíd Mogesté (Non-partisan) 1899-1904
Rínel Píe (Non-partisan) 1904-1909
Alfred Miles (Charterian) 1909-1914
Loélin Hettím (Republican) 1914-1919
Míney Drostan (Republican) 1919-1920*
Franklin Kennedy (Republican) 1920-1924
Colo Píe (Anti-Reelectionist Republican) 1924-1929
Éuel Lanwelí (True Republican) 1929-1934
Jacob Skill Ironwrit (Opposition) 1934-1939
Henry Brookes (Opposition) 1939-1941*
Alexander Hold (Opposition) 1941-1944
Belén Brú (United Independent Republican) 1944-1947*
Richard Wyatt Whittaker (United Independent Republican) 1947-1949
Elan Peredur (True Republican) 1949-1954
Henri de Courtenay (True Republican) 1954-1959
Léri Pol Guétré (True Republican) 1959-1964
Alexandre Williams (Cavalier) 1964-1969
Mehémien Melín (True Republican) 1969-1974
Nicholas Backhouse (Cavalier) 1974-1979
James Elias (True Republican) 1979-1984
Jean-Paul Sauvage (True Republican) 1984-1989
Ímerí Drésteni (True Republican) 1989-1994
George Bloor (True Republican) 1994-1999
Édouard Macron (True Republican) 1999-2004
Ole Guí Liget (True Republican) 2004-2009
David Hanks (True Republican) 2009-2014
Jaime de Rochefoucauld (True Republican) 2014-2019
Rouén Tergé (True Republican) 2019-20??

 

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Essentially each of the provinces have a regional dáil, and every other year they all come together to form the Mórdháil ('Great Assembly') which deals with broad Irish matters. The State of Ireland, for which the Mórdháil is the legislature, broadly doesn't do foreign policy, it keeps to itself.

if there's a crisis that needs an all-Ireland response, the person holding the position closest to a head of state Ireland has, the Taoiseach, can declare that they are summoning the Mórdháil for an extraordinary session. Outside of that, the Taoiseach basically just is the only common thing all of Ireland has, and even they're just a ceremonial figurehead. The Taoiseach, when the Mórdháil is in session, serves as its presiding officer. When the Mórdháil is summoned, they instantly loses their job unless re-elected to a new term. This means extraordinary sessions are not that common.

 

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The Dáil of Ulster can be divided between
- "Teachtaí of the O'Neill Clandeboye", a legal fiction given that lineage perished. Elected by those of some property. Politics are divided between the non-denominational radical Hands and the Catholic conservative Shamrocks. Or for short, the "Reds" and "Greens". If they're from Derry, they're called "Teachtaí of the Corporation of Derry" instead.
- Teachtaí of the MacMahon, also elected, but thanks to the Daíl being the regent for Oriel. There's a confusing legal contradiction here as the MacMahon (as young as she is) has not relinquished her legal claim to the land currently under the 'Munnayan' republic, traditionally part of Oriel.
- Teachtaí from the "other" clans. They're directly appointed by the clan chiefs, no election at all. Democracy really isn't a thing at all here. They tend overwhelmingly independent, but sympathetic to Shamrocks, more than balancing out the Clandeboye preference for Hands. However, they do not attend the current Dáil because of...
- Teachtaí of the Republics of Fermanay and Munnayan. Selected by their Governing Councils, their politics tend to be very Ulster Scots, fairly anti-Gaelic and thus anathema to the Shamrocks, but even increasingly uncomfortable to the Hands.

This does mean that quite a few Ulster elections have stuff like Shamrock majorities despite Hands winning a large popular vote majority.

Neither of the factions can be easily classified as left or right. The Hands are democrats, but they're also the most willing to accept the plantation republics, while Shamrocks are opposed to them and call for full native rule, but not democratic rule, with them being willing sometimes to float the Great O'Neill's argument against the Dáil directly controlling the Clandeboye (and thus floating abolishing elections).

 

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The Dominion of New England's Grand Council is made out of two chambers, one of which provides confidence for the Captain-Minister (the local equivalent of a Prime Minister), and the other which acts as a chamber of scrutiny, of review and ultimately of the veto.

The Captain-Minister answers to the Governor, appointed by the King over in Britain, and to the House of Laity, the lower chamber. It is a popularly-elected chamber, answerable to those of some property. Once, it was long ago built off 'church suffrage' where any registered member of a church who was regarded as in good standing would be automatically enfranchised, but with the secular reforms imposed by the Imperium, this was tightened up to be more strictly those of provable property, not just church-going people.

The upper chamber was once the House of Clergy, elected religious ministers by their fellows from each of the provinces, and arguably was the more 'senior' chamber in the old system, as it often overrode the House of Laity on policy. The Imperium intervened eventually, imposing a government structure that at least obeyed the pretence of secularism, and the House of Clergy was abolished, replaced by the House of Estimate, with an equal number of Estimators being appointed by each provincial assembly. This blatantly unrepresentative model is arguably more unbalanced compared to the previous House, where even though suffrage was deeply restricted, it at least reflected, roughly, the population.

The 'factions' in the House of Laity, and to a lesser degree the House of Estimate, goes as such.

The Whigs: Very secular, reformist but not democratic. They're willing to admit some fault, and would like to reform the House of Estimate to be a little more based on population, but shies away from full on population-basis due to the small provinces having a strong say in Whig caucus rooms.
The Covenanters: Quite religious, very hierarchical, somewhat reactionary. Their distrust of the secular system and of the House of Estimate is well known, and they often think of a way to restore the rightful House of Clergy. All of their appointments to the House of Estimate are clergymen.
The Commonwealthmen: Very religious, but firmly not hierarchical. They believe in a "Godly Republic", and prior to their going full-blown revolutionary were known as the troublemakers in the Laity, and never got representation in the Estimate, for that reason.
The Natives: The many many protectorates in the Dominion of New England are all permitted to send a 'delegate' to the House of Laity. They tend mostly cautious, distrustful of the Commonwealthmen's talk of 'uniformity', balk at Covenanters' overt missionary views and loosely work with Whigs.