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I have a lot of headcanon about how Wonderland works because I write Alice in Wonderland fic myself, so that influences into how I theorize about it on OUaTiW. But the way I'm guessing it works out is:

Wonderland and Looking Glass Land are two separate kingdoms/realms that border each other. The Queen of Hearts rules one and the aristocracy is made up of the other suits (so the "queen" and "king" of, say, Clubs in this "deck" are actually a duchess and a duke, etc.)

Looking Glass Land is a confederacy of two traditionally opposing (but not generally unfriendly) queendoms (Red/White). The Red side has primary power as a result of the Red King (out of whose dreams the whole of the land is believed to have sprung).

Looking Glass Land is annexed to Wonderland, with opposition to this from the White side.

I'm also of the opinion that, in dream-logic-based Wonderland, time does whatever the hell it wants to, so I wouldn't be bothered by Cora and Rigby!Queen ruling contemporaneously with each other and/or the spinoff having a tenuous connection to the parent show's timeline in general.