Did I misunderstand or miss a notice? Is there not a late 18th century U.S. sim? I see no sign of it here, and I believe this is where I first heard of it.

updated by @oflaherty-dreadlow: 06 Oct 2016 06:03:12AM

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Yes, you are right , Sir...i had a fugitive vision of this budding group of United States of America, and then...Pffffffttt....That's always so sad,when a group is removed, and it makes me wonder if this U.S. Nation really has a promising big future....Time will tell!

Ah, that IS a loss...There wasn't any area of Europe that couldn't have interacted with that "court" and had interesting encounters and fascinating visions of the cities and countryside of that environment.It would have automatically become a major player in this life (ooc: just as George Washington became the most famous name in the world in that pre-mass media age).

There was so much potential as Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and others are some of the most popular people in France right now. Their dream of a new kind of government based on French enlightened ideas is inspiring to many of the peasant and bourgeois people in the duchy. Perhaps they have forgotten that it was France that provided the resources for them to gain their independence from England, placing our people even deeper into poverty. They have many ties to England and the continent. It is unfortunate for them to seek to be isolationists.Many of us see that fledgling nation as an experiment that could change the entire makeup of Europe. Imagine a country where the royalty serves the people rather than the people giving up everything they have to support a mere 1% of the population. Is it possible that Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brde et de Montesquieu's idea of separation of powers could actually work? The people of his home region of Aquitaine would be proud to eventually benefit from such enlightened concepts!

I could not agree more to Duke Bedrich's statement, and my former comment was more a superficial trait d'esprit on the promising future of the US nation, than a reflect of my opinions. I tend to wonder, though, through my painful past experience of the Seven Years War, if any political institution -as good as it gets- will be able to win over the evil that lies deep in the heart of man,waiting for the proper circumstances to be revealed.But as the saying goes:" Il n'est pas necessaire d'esperer pour entreprendre, ni de reussir pour perseverer"and i will support the efforts of our good Duke to apply the ideal of Enlightenment to our daily life, in the Duchy and beyond.