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The legal system of New Ardmore is based on [[List of national legal systems around the world|common law]], with some residual influence from the Gaelic customary {{wp|Brehon law}} in certain fields.

Ardmore has an {{wp|Insular Celtic}} culture with noticeable traces of Pretannic influence from early in its history, shaped by local geographic and climatic conditions, the Catholic faith, and contact with [[Coscivian civilisation]] by virtue of its status as a Kiravian federal subject. The state is rather homogeneous: 88% of the population of New Ardmore are ethnic Gaels. Most of the remainder are Coscivian-Kiravians or of Levantine backgrounds other than Gaelic. Ardmorean Gaelic, which is largely though not fully mutually intelligible with the varieties spoken in the Kiravian Gaeltacht, Faneria, and Fiannria and contains many archæic and endemic features, is spoken by 85.6% of the population as a first language. Kiravic Coscivian is an auxiliary official language and is widely understood in urban areas, though most long-term Coscivian residents in the islands find it necessary to learn Gaelic to get by.

The overwhelming majority of the population is of the Roman Catholic faith, and Levantian Catholic authorities visiting the island report that virtually the entire population attends Mass on Sundays. Intense cultural isolation has allowed for the preservation of religious rites and practices - some deriving from Insular Celtic Christianity and some of local origin - that have disappeared elsewhere in the Catholic world. A smaller number of parishes in New Ardmore belong to the [[Insular Apostolic Church|Insular Apostolic Communion]] and three to the Ancient Celtic Church in Kiravia.

The economy of New Ardmore was historically agrarian, and agriculture remains an important activity across much of the archipelago, although services now employ the majority of the Ardmorean workforce. Ardmoreans engaged in many maritime-related business ventures during the age of the sale, ranging from legitimate commerce, ship repair and oceanic fishing to smuggling, privateering, and piracy. These activities declined with advances in shipping technology, which led to a long-term economic downturn for the archipelago, but have since been replaced with growing tourism, distillation, and healthcare industries.

Remittances from Ardmoreans working in other parts of the Kiravian Federacy and [[Levantine Union]] are crucial to the islands' economy, with up to 26% of Ardmorean households classified as remittance-dependent by the state's Department of Human Economics.

New Ardmore benefits greatly from {{wp|heritage tourism}} by members of the Ardmori diaspora, hosting thousands of annual visitors from [[Arcerion]], [[Asteria]], and other former Ardmori settler colonies seeking to reconnect with their ancestral roots. The New Ardmore government has encouraged such travel by funding emigration museums, historical parks, and genealogy centres catering to the diaspora.