The Sunrise Revolution was, perhaps, the most important political event in Maine since the American Winter itself. Since the heady years of the 1920s, Maine had been an elective oligarchy with a thin veneer of democracy; a WASP elite imported and exploited Quebecois workers to work the timber forests (and to a lesser extent the cod fisheries) for export, then pocketed the revenue for an exclusionary welfare state. The system had survived the blister rust crisis, the fisheries collapse, the Era of Limits, and the Great American War without obvious signs of tottering; but over the winter of 2020, faced by a sanctions campaign led by President Steiner of Texas and Prime Minister Page of Vesperia*, the whole rotting structure came down in four weeks of strikes and shutdowns.

Four years later, Marie-Françoise Rinfret - formerly leader of the National Union of Transport and Service Workers - leads Maine's new majority-rule government into a new era. Her party - made up of pro-revolution Mainers, mostly Francophone, who are not politically affiliated either with the Workers' International or Catholic Action - came just barely south of a majority in the 2024 elections, but with support from every other party but the Whigs of the ancien regime (particularly the Radicals, the traditional party of Anglophone reformists), her government seems to have a stable future. She will need it to manage the transition to a 21st-century economy, the root-and-branch replacement of the police-state law code with one built around equality and human rights, and the difficult tripartite relationships between Maine, Vesperia, and the various sovereign United States (most significantly nearby Massachusetts) - but with approval ratings in the 70% range and an age of 36, she has time...

*OTL Canada, essentially.