Republic of Québec

Republic of Québec
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Capital	Québec City
Government	Representative Democracy
Leaders	President: Maxime M. Gagné
Population	18,467,000
Land area
GDP (total)	219,8 billion
(per capita)
Major Ethnic Groups
Major Languages Spoken
Major Religions
Currency	Québec Dollar ($) = Nuyen (¥)

The Republic of Québec or Québec (French: République du Québec or Québec) is a country in eastern North America, between Hudson Bay and St Lawrence River (French: St Laurent).

It shares land borders with UCAS , Algonkian-Manitou Council and a marine border with France's dependency of St Pierre et Miquelon island. The capital is Québec City.

Vital Statistics

Population: 18,467,000
  Human: 100%
  Elf: 0%  	> Unautorized
  Dwarf: 0%  	> Unautorized
  Ork: 0%  	> Unautorized
  Troll: 0% 	> Unautorized
White: 90%
Black: 5%
Hispanic: 2%
Asian: 2%
Amerindian: 1%

History

1663 - Nouvelle France becomes a province of France.
1763 - Nouvelle France pass under the control of Great Britain under the name Québec.
1867 - Great Britain gives Canada self-governance.
1970 - The FLQ manifesto.
2010 - Québec secedes from Canada.

Economy

Corporate Presence
Cross Applied Technologies (HQ: Montreal) (poad.59, cd.51-57)
Few megacorporations

Québec signed the Business Recognition Accords. Extraterritoriality can be applied within the limits of "Enterprise Zones" set by the government and leased to megacorporations. There are currently 12 Enterprise Zones in Québec City and 18 in Montreal.

References

Primary source: Neo-Anarchist's Guide to North America, pp 64-69.

Québec City: Neo-Anarchist's Guide to North America, pp 70-77.

Relations with Germany: Germany Sourcebook, pg 43.

The Igloo smuggling route starts in Québec (tsh.82).
The Québec Unité is a group which wants to join Québec with the UCAS (und.88).
By law, business must be conducted in French (cd.55).
Gendarmerie: Local arm of Lone Star (cd.56).
Military contracts with Mitsuhama for drones (cd.60).
Shadowland node in (at least) Québec City (tm.27).

Semi-Official sources

The novel Run Hard, Die Fast contains some action in Québec. It includes the following observations:

• "Speaking English in Québec City is not a good idea." (pg 140)
• Doesn't recognize sentient paranormal critters and wanted trolls put on bounty lists. (pg 141)
• Good work for bounty hunters. (pg 141)
• Contains extraterritorial Enterprise Zones for (at least) MCT, Aztechnology, Fuchi, Yokogawa-Honeywell, and Yamaha. (pg 143)

External Links

The city of North Bay is detailed in the locations section of the Neoanarchists' Guide To Everything Else, pp 30-35.

This page forked from Wordman's The Sixth World: A geographical index to the world of Shadowrun