Kingsmount

Kingsmount has 1.6% of the population of Sober Thought and is the second most populous city in the latter's province of Hochelaga. It is also the only federally chartered municipality in Hochelaga to use English as an official language.

The municipality was created when a fifth of the former population of Mont Royaume seceded over language and cultural issues. Kingsmount, whose name is a translation of Mont Royaume, is overwhelmingly English. See the separate article on Mont Royaume for a discussion of the metropolitan area and Kingsmount prior to secession.

Economy and culture

In former times, the business elite lived in what is now Kingsmount and were great patrons of the arts. Today the most energetic entrepreneurs have moved away from the chafing strictures of Hochelaga and Montroy's political economy. Those who have remained have been the most accommodating to the interventionist and restrictive economic and cultural policies.

Likewise, the province has used its powers over education to prohibit state-supported instruction in the English language except as a field of study. Many of Kingsmount's parents have enrolled their minor children in after-hours English language and anglophone cultural classes.

Tertiary students may enroll in the bilingual private secular Université de Mont Royaume / Mont Royaume University, which has retains its historic name even after its secession from the larger francophone city. In the realm of public education, students granted provincial scholarships must leave the city and attend a campus of the French-only Université du Hochelaga in Montroy, Hochelaga City or the smaller centres.

Municipal government

The unilingual Kingsmount College was founded by the municipal government and restricts its entrance to English speaking residents and charges about half of its French university counterpart but it cannot offer municipal government scholarships.

Kingsmount's municipal government is unlike any other in the province and more closely reflects its English background by rejecting corporate representation in favour of individual representation only. Voters in each of the 30 wards with longstanding boundaries return one member per ward, and voters across the city elect the Mayor and Deputy Mayor at-large.

Civil Guard

Kingsmount is considered part of the Mont Royaume Guard Region and raises two battalions each wave of one hundred million national residents: one armoured or infantry, one artillery or other. The Kingsmount Regiment, the all-purpose parent organisation for all anglophone units in the province, uses English internally.

Its sequentially numbered battalions bear in parentheses the sub-branch or branch they represent. Every twelfth Hochelaga Civil Guard unit raised, exclusive of HQ, comes from the regiment. For the field battalions, one is raised in order in each of the following branches or sub-branches: armoured, armoured infantry, motorised infantry, mountain infantry and light infantry. For the combat and service support, one of: field artillery (self-propelled or towed), combat engineering, security (composite of reconnaissance, military police and intelligence), transport, civil engineering, supply, maintenance engineering and health.

To illustrate the rules above, in the first ten population waves, the following battalions of The Kingsmount Regiment in their respective branches were raised:

• 1st (Armoured Car) to 2nd Hochelaga Brigade (Armoured Infantry) of 8th Division
• 2nd (Field Artillery, Self-Propelled Armoured) to 2nd Hochelaga Brigade (Armoured Infantry) of 8th Division
• 3rd (Tracked Armoured Infantry) to 6th Hochelaga Brigade (Armoured Infantry) of 18th Division
• 4th (Combat Engineering) to Engineering Demi-Brigade of 18th Division
• 5th (Motorised Infantry) to 9th Hochelaga Brigade (Motorised Infantry) of 28th Division
• 6th (Security) directly to 28th Division
• 7th (Mountain Infantry) to 13th Hochelaga Brigade (Mountain Infantry) of 37th Mountain Infantry Division
• 8th (Transport) to Logistics Demi-Brigade of 38th Division
• 9th (Light Infantry) to 16th Hochelaga Brigade (Light Infantry) of 48th Division
• 10th (Civil Engineering) to Engineering Demi-Brigade of 48th Division
• 11th (Light Tank) to Divisional Reserve Demi-Brigade of 58th Division
• 12th (Supply) to Logistics Demi-Brigade of 58th Division
• 13th (Wheeled Armoured Infantry) to 28th Hochelaga Brigade (Armoured Infantry) of 68th Division
• 14th ([[CDF maintenance engineering#Land maintenance engineering|Maintenance Engineering) to Engineering Demi-Brigade of 68th Division
• 15th (Motorised Infantry) to 30th Hochelaga Brigade (Motorised Infantry) of 78th Division
• 16th (Health) directly to 78th Division
• 17th (Mountain Infantry) to 32nd Hochelaga Brigade (Mountain Infantry) of 87th Mountain Infantry Division
• 18th (Field Artillery, Towed) to 33rd Hochelaga Brigade (Motorised Infantry) of 88th Division
• 19th (Light Infantry) to 40th Hochelaga Brigade (Light Infantry) of 98th Division
• 20th (Combat Engineering) to Engineering Demi-Brigade of 98th Division