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I think it's also a quasi- feudal society. Cora says it best, "Raise the tributes. Form a personal guard. Let the people know where the new power lies." This is quite feudal and explains the carefree kingdoms that exist and etc. Let's take Leopold's kingdom for example. It's mostly villages and a town or two. It works simply because the crown offers protection (like in Labor of Love when the peasants asked for help against bandits) in exchange for tributes. Then, there are personal guards. This would also explain how George and Regina could be deposed because they have a personal guard of a few dozen or so and it's not like you'd have a standing army as it would be costly.

Lord LeGume and Sir Maurice are probably just smaller feudal lords that maintained independence. If Maurice's map is correct, then he has a town and a few few vilages and towers under his domain. Whereas George has a castle town and some villages/farmland and Regina has a town or two and a number of villages.