The People

The majority of the Bretonnian populous are the most downtrodden and repressed people in the Old World, which is definitely saying something. Combine this with the fact that most Bretonnian nobles are the most arrogant, foppish, and self-centred in the Old World you have a sorry state of affairs for such a powerful nation. But as long as the cities have large retinues of highly trained Knights everything will be fine.

Bretonnians are a rural-loving folk at heart and do not especially like living in cities. Pigs, chicken, and other livestock are allowed to wonder the filthy streets as rural ways are stubbornly held. Where the other nations of the Old World would use pens the Bretonnians do not even think about it. They do not care about the possible spread of disease because they know no other life.

The Bretonnian ruling classes are ridden with corruption, willfully blind to the decay around them and sordidly decadent in every way. Painted fops parade their finery amongst the mud and dung of the streets, ladies sit like dolls in shining carriages, bedecked in glittering jewels and tall white wigs, while hiding their ghastly pox-marks and worse disfigurements behind rouge and white powder. The taint of Chaos is less apparent in Bretonnia only because its citizens remain blind to it, unbelieving and unwilling to accept its dreadful implications, hiding their fear behind extravagance and tawdry display.

Incredibly there is no middle-class in Bretonnia. The disparity is so great between rich and poor that there is only an upper and lower class, or nobles and commoners. The nobles form not only the upper-class but scholars, physicians, merchants, and lawyers. The King appoints his rulers for each dukedom from the aristocracy.

People with skills, such as craftsmen, smithies, artisans etc., are more than likely snapped up by the nearest ruling Duke, Baron, or Knight, where they work in their castles. This means that industry throughout Bretonnia is literally zero. It is not surprising that many commoners have dreams of finally leaving Bretonnia and maybe even become adventurers.

Dukes are the rulers of the regions of Bretonnia. This means that there are thirteen Dukes in total. The King of course has responsibility for his region (Couronne).

Barons are subordinate to their ruling Dukes but do rule a domain of their own within their Duke's dukedom. 

Elves, Dwarfs and Halflings

The largest settlement of Elves in the Old World lies within Bretonnia in the hidden woodland realm of Athel Loren. There are perhaps as many as six thousand Elves living there. They know of the poverty that the majority of Bretonnians endure and while they think it is a shame they never get involved with the dealings of the Dukes and Barons. There are no other populations of Elves in Bretonnia other than in the Loren Forest.

Dwarf smithies can sometimes be found working in the great castles forging armour and weapons. But in reality this is as far as it gets as there are few industrial opportunities for Dwarfs in Bretonnia. The warriors of their kind may be attracted to the numbers of Orcs and goblins in many of the country's regions but that is all.

There is no sizeable population of Halflings in Bretonnia and the Dukes would never dream of hiring a Halfling to do the cooking because as everyone knows "Bretonnian chefs are the best in the world!" However, some nobles might have a Halfling as a jester.