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Still no. Remember, L-P took advantage of an unpopular king, and led a coup at his death. Pretty much everyone ahead of him had either been killed, or rendered to nothing, by the time he took power.

Unlikely. And it would be a combination of Governates and Grand Duchies.

Something akin to a cold war would still happen. Focus would just shift from political beliefs to simply rivalry.

Realistically, reception of socialism and communism would be worse, not better.