Republic of Trinidad

Statistics

Name - Republic of Trinidad (English) / République de Trinidad (French)

Continent - Americas

Capital - Port of Spain

Administration

Head of state - Chief Magistrate --------

Head of government - Prime Minister --------

Legislature - Assembly

Speaker of the Assembly -

Legislation Minister -

Judiciary - Supreme Court of Judicature

Justice Minister -

Form of government - Unitary republic under a democratic ministerial confidential constitution

Form of law - Brougham Code

Demonym - Trinidadian, Trini

Geography

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Capital (and largest city) - Port of Spain

Time zone -

Currency - Trinidadian dollar

Demography

Languages - English, French

Population -

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Symbols

National festival -

Anthem -

Motto -

History

-following British Wars > Popular Revolution (1827-9) Britain retains it

-despite planter panic

-slavery successfully abolished

-and to ensure there's a ready labor force a lot of laborers brought in through Gibraltar to reinforce this

-not that this means they're all Gibraltarian, simply that the importing is done through this city

-they came from variously Spain, Italy, and Portugal (esp. Madeira), and long term they come to speak creolized French

-though there's a special intention to bring Protestant converts a lot of them are in practice Catholics

-1830s and 1840s is era of change as this labor force changes

-and a conspiracy to make Trinidad into an American slave state does not reach same extremes as it does in Jamaica

-eventually laborers imported in rising numbers from India in the later 19th century

-and Trinidad is 13% Indian or so by the modern day