Perestrella

Republic of Perestrella

The name comes from the explorer who charted it in TTL. The republic actually took shape from the inside out, as it were, when Spanish and French/Burgundian gold and diamond concerns, allied with the Burgundian government, overran the Spanish colony at the cape. Burgundy has a small trade concession at Cape Town itself.

Its government is nominally aristogogist, in the same sense that many "socialist" countries in the 20th century OTL were really anything but. It's a mining plutocracy that uses an aristogogist veneer for propaganda purposes.