Heads of Laurentia

Name - République Laurentienne (French) / Laurentian Republic (English)

Continent - Americas

Capital - Montreal

Head of state and government - President 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

Area - 865,638.64 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 piastre

Language - French, English (co-official)

Population - 13,401,000

Density - 15.48/km^2

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

-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

-Area - Quebec with 1898 borders and with adjacent part of Labrador

-Quebec - 1,542,056.14 km^2

-minus District of Ungava - 750,000 km^2

-plus one-fourth Labrador - 73582.5 km^2

-run by a President, in clear Amerophilia

-elected by National Assembly

-manages a Council of State

-legislature is a unicameral National Assembly

-elected by multi-member districts