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The state owns all land not privately owned, and all citizens owe service (just like French conscripts do at home). | The state owns all land not privately owned, and all citizens owe service (just like French conscripts do at home). | ||
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+ | (The Kamekame shrewdly played this game, first by wrangling up a Protectorate status, then having scrambling to "buy" their own lands with trade-goods in the late 1800s.) | ||
In practice, the colonies are profitable. Aside from serving as a trans-pacific waystation (and, now, a source of tourism via air-travel), French Polynesia has plantations that are hugely profitable (copra, pineapples, coconuts, etc). Oceania's trade has recovered from the Great Depression- both imports and exports are at more than quadruple the figures for 1933. | In practice, the colonies are profitable. Aside from serving as a trans-pacific waystation (and, now, a source of tourism via air-travel), French Polynesia has plantations that are hugely profitable (copra, pineapples, coconuts, etc). Oceania's trade has recovered from the Great Depression- both imports and exports are at more than quadruple the figures for 1933. | ||
''Policy toward Port Cochere'': Officially, a blind eye. Over the last century-or-so, the French have ignored a lot, in order to get a lot out of it. So long as the Mayor of Port Cochere is doing his job properly, there is typically little in the way of direct engagement. | ''Policy toward Port Cochere'': Officially, a blind eye. Over the last century-or-so, the French have ignored a lot, in order to get a lot out of it. So long as the Mayor of Port Cochere is doing his job properly, there is typically little in the way of direct engagement. | ||
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= The Mayor's Office = | = The Mayor's Office = |