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Once the territories each side would receive had been settled, relations among the Anglo-French-Australasian powers also became harmonious.

Now that the three countries shared a common goal—to steadily establish new nations within the limits of their respective strength, and then have those nations bring them sufficient benefits.

When choosing the systems of government for the new nations, the United Kingdom and Australasia naturally chose monarchies, while the French people firmly chose republicanism.

This was determined by the systems of government of the three countries. It was impossible for any of them to choose a system contrary to their own—wouldn't that just be making trouble for themselves?

Since the French people had already supported the Lone Star Republic, this also meant that their remaining territories would have to be divided into two countries.

That was the condition for exchanging them for the division of the British territories into two halves, and the French people naturally had no reason to refuse.

After all, Texas State already had a population of over five million. Compared with the territories Australasia had obtained, the territories France received were inferior in number, but far superior in population and economic strength.

Texas State and California State had populations of roughly the same size. However, in the West, only Washington State, Nebraska State, and Colorado State had populations exceeding one million. The rest were all barren regions with populations of merely a few hundred thousand.

Looking at the territories the French people had obtained, every one of them was a developed eastern region with a population of at least one million, and some with over two million.

The least populous among them was probably Arkansas, but even Arkansas had a population of 1.82 million. By comparison, its economic value far exceeded that of the territories Australasia had obtained.