The Sultanate of Madjrit established a distinct colonial society in El-Rabeeah, defined by the mass conversion of indigenous populations to Islam and the extraction of immense wealth through gold, silver, and sugar. To fuel this economy, the Sultanate leveraged its control over West African ports to import vast numbers of slaves, many of whom eventually gained freedom through conversion and intermarried with the colonizers. This process created a racially diverse, heterogeneous society that lacked the strict segregation seen elsewhere. However, the influx of colonial treasure ultimately destabilized the metropole; relying heavily on this extraction to fund a massive military, the Madjriti court neglected domestic industry and infrastructure, leading to a cycle of debt and inflation that rendered the empire’s economy fragile despite its superficial riches.
France, facing similar financial perils, adopted a more regimented approach to its colonies in Ecab and the Caribbean. While the French Crown successfully spurred domestic manufacturing to offset its debts, it relied heavily on the output of sugar plantations and silver mines. To solve its labor crisis without trading with the rival Madjriti, France established a controversial slave trade with Eastern Rome to procure Muslim captives and later secured direct access to African labor through its South African colony. This resulted in the imposition of a rigid racial caste system in New France, stratifying society from European-born elites down to "Mohammediens," a permanent underclass of slaves subjected to the harshest treatment and denied any avenue for manumission.
The Dutch and British empires developed dual economic structures that separated their vast, resource-rich mainland territories from their lucrative island plantations. The Dutch focused on extracting furs and timber from the sparsely populated Groot Territory while generating massive profits from sugar produced by slaves purchased from Madjrit in the Caribbean. Britain similarly divided its Mornaean holdings between an industrializing north and a plantation-based south, but unlike the Dutch, it encouraged large-scale settlement to create a society that mirrored the British Isles. Britain sustained its labor needs through illicit trade and the importation of African Christians, while the small Danish colony in the region inadvertently became a refuge for escaped slaves fleeing the brutal regimes of the major powers.