Restriction on the vote had slowly been erased since the Independence and the suffrage was nominally universal (of course for men, women being still considered minors) although there were still restrictions hindering the poor classes of the Kingdom. The Parliamentary inherited from the Anglois monarchy held strong, although most of the debate was centred around individual quarrels, between the Planters and the Parti d’Avant-Garde : thus the opposition to Lord Polimont, viscount of Baton-Rouge and Prime Minister of Plantagenia from 1834 to 1849 was not on ideological disagreements (he was known for his multiple compromises and turn-arounds during his career on slavery as an example) but on the opposition between the rural aristocracy and the “court favorites” of Nouvelle-Orléans. Moreover there were still roughly 15% of the population being Cherokee or assimilated, mostly living in the hinterlands and the Appalaches. The bourgeoisie while becoming more powerful in the coastal cities wasn’t as developed as in Vinland and Belgica, be it economically or as a conscious class. From the few censuses undertaken by the Nouvelle-Orléans authorities we can estimate that the country numbered 5 millions inhabitants, although only a mere half were considered true citizens : slavery still plagued the country and a rough third of the people were slaves of African descent, with ships full of slaves still docking in the New-World and supplying the plantation system on which the Plantagenian economy was built. When the Belgians attacked the Kingdom of Plantagenia in what would become the Second War of the Double Alliance, the Kingdom had not changed much since the Anglo-French War of Succession in which Charles Plantagenet had relinquished the European crown and then declared the vice-royalty of Nouvelle-France independent.
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