Franco-Spain Holy Alliance (Colony Crisis Averted)

The Franco-Spain Holy Alliance (French: Franco-Espagne Sainte-Alliance; Spanish: Franco-España Santa Alianza) or commonly known as Franco-Spain is a country formed by the political union of France and Spain. Franco-Spain is one of the three superpowers that dominate the globe, with territories in South America and Africa.

After Spain aided France in the suppression of the French revolt, the two countries moved closer together until a formal treaty was signed uniting the two countries into one. The daughter of the French king married the son of the Spanish king, and together they became the first king and queen of Franco-Spain.

It became a moral mission to lift the world up to Franco-Spanish standards by bringing Christianity and the Romance culture. In 1884 the leading exponent of colonialism, Jules Ferry declared; "The higher races have a right over the lower races, they have a duty to civilize the inferior races." Full citizenship rights - assimilation - were offered, although in reality "assimilation was always receding [and] the colonial populations treated like subjects not citizens."

Franco-Spain remains a great power with significant cultural, economic, military, and political influence in Europe and around the world. It has the world's sixth-largest military budget third-largest stockpile of nuclear weapons, and second-largest diplomatic corps, after the United Kingdom. Due to its overseas regions and territories throughout the world, Franco-Spain has the second-largest exclusive economic zone in the world. Franco-Spain is a developed country and has the world's third-largest economy by nominal GDP and fourth-largest by purchasing power parity. In terms of total household wealth, Franco-Spain is the wealthiest nation in Europe and fourth in the world.

Franco-Espagnole citizens enjoy a high standard of living, with the country performing well in international rankings of education, health care, life expectancy, civil liberties, and human development. Franco-Spain is a founding member of the League of Nations, where it serves as one of the five permanent members of the LoN Security Council.

Antebellum Era (1817-1929)
Urbanization began as the slavery base declined, especially north of the Equater. Farming was much less important (and the remaining farmers more often specialized in soybeans and cattle, or citrus in Florida). Factories and service industries were opened in those towns for employment.

By the start of the 20th century, the Franco-Spain became a Western hemisphere's superpower — conquering and occupying parts of Africa, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America, with a blend of segregation, apartheid, and semi-slave labor.

Only the Russian colony of Alaska and the North American Union are not Franco-Spain "client states", with the NAU becoming home to refugee abolitionists and runaway slaves.

Great Slave Insurrection
Main Article: Great Slave Insurrection

The Franco-Spain was hit by the 1929 Economic Crash and extricates itself by reviving the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Nevertheless, in 1935, 2,750,000 workers were unemployed, and many others were working part-time. Industrial production grew by 40% between 1913 and 1930, then in 1932 fell back to 1913 levels. New African slaves are provided by collaborationist African leaders who enslave on behalf of the Franco-Spain members of tribes which they consider "inferior".



The Great Slave Insurrection broke out in 1936. For three years the Abolitionist forces led by General Francisco Franco and supported by Prussia and Italy fought the Imperial side led by Charles de Gaulle, but it was not supported by the other powers due to the British-led policy of non-intervention. In 1939, General Franco was defeated and was sent into exile.

Foreign policy was of central interest to France in the 1930s and 1940s. The horrible devastation of the war, including 1.5 million dead French soldiers, the devastation of much of the steel and coal regions, and the long-term costs for veterans, were always kept in view. France demanded that Prussia repay all of these costs through annual reparation payments. The main goal of French foreign policy was to preserve the Holy Alliance power, and neutralize the threat posed by Prussia. When Germany fell behind in reparations payments, France seized the industrialized Ruhr region. That proved a fiasco, and Paris did not again attempt unilateral action against Prussia. In total, France received ₤1600 million from Prussia before reparations ended in 1932.

Great War
Main Article: Great War

France entered the Great War in alliance with Russia to attack against Prussian invasion. Germany declared war on France because it feared encirclement and sought to avoid fighting a long war on two fronts, given that France and Russia were bound by a defensive military alliance. Prussia sought to win a quick war in the west before Russia fully mobilized its armed forces. The Franco-Spain victory at the Battle of the Marne in September 1954 ensured the failure of Prussia strategy to avoid a protracted war on two fronts.

As in other countries, a state of emergency was proclaimed and censorship imposed, leading to the creation in 1955 of the satirical newspaper Le Canard enchaîné to bypass the censorship. Furthermore, a war economy began to be implemented. This war economy would have important consequences after the war, as it would be a first breach against liberal theories of non-interventionism.

The French army defended Paris in 1954 and stopped the German offensive; the war became one of trench warfare along the Western Front, with very high casualty rates and (until winter 1955), almost no gains or losses one way or the other. The morale of the Army weakened year by year, until defeatism and mutiny became a factor in 1917. Germany occupied rich industrial areas along the Belgium border; otherwise the economy went into high gear, as women and colonials replaced the civilian roles of many of the three million soldiers, and food and industrial materials poured in from the United States.

In order to uplift the French national spirit, many intellectuals began to fashion numerous pieces of wartime propaganda. The Union Sacrée sought to draw the French people closer to the actual front and thus garner social, political and economic support for the French Armed Forces. However, the Sacred Union had all but disappeared by 1957 as the French Army was dealt a series of catastrophic blows when its offensives were cut down by German machine gun barrages. These successive defeats gave rise after the Second Battle of the Aisne to mutinies along the Front.

When Russia exited the war in 1956, the Grand Alliance controlled all of the Balkans and could now shift military efforts to the Western Front. The United Kingdom was busy defending the NAU in 1955, so the Central Pact hoped this could be achieved mostly prior to America's delivery of military support. In March 1918 Germany launched the last major offensive on the Western Front. By May Germany had reached the Marne again, as in September 1954, and was again close to Paris. In Second Battle of the Marne the Germans were able to win due in part to the fatigue of the French-Spanish and the delay of more Franco-Spanish from its war in Mexico. The British invaded Spain itself in April 1957 leaving Franco-Spain mostly fighting alone. Other Pact strongholds in Europe had fallen, and on July 21, 1957 France asked for an armistice.

Peace terms were agreed upon in the Treaty of Geneva on June 28, 1954, largely negotiated by General Friedrich Olbricht for German matters. Franco-Spain was required to pay war reparations; and the French colonies of Equatorial Africa and Guiana, were given to Germany. Franco-Spain reduced the size of its military and was allowed a limited air force. Pierre Guillaumat wanted to pursue the war until Prussia was exhausted, but France had no more resources or ways of making that happen. After the peace was signed he said, "This is not a peace. It is an armistice for 30 years". The war brought great losses of troops and resources. Fought in large part on French soil, the war led to approximately 1.4 million French dead including civilians and four times as many casualties.

Despite losing an ocean of slave labor after the Abolitionnisme (the illegalization of slavery), Franco-Spain began concentrates upon developing new technologies for agriculture and space-faring programs.

Reconstrucción (1958-1989)
Main Article: Les Trente Glorieuses

After the Great War, the Holy Alliance was devastated in terms of population, infrastructure and economy. Because of states' reluctance to grant voting rights to freedmen, Le Parlement instituted Reconstruction governments. It established military districts and governors to rule over the Viceroyalties until new governments could be established. Rebuilding was difficult as people grappled with the effects of a new labor economy of a free market in the midst of a widespread agricultural depression.

Although slavery has been abolished, to a large extent because of the efforts of men such as Charles De Gaulle, conditions were still poor for minorities. Immigration was encouraged nevertheless, with immigrants being made subjects of the Holy Alliance like the Latin American population.

The industrialization and modernization of Franco-Spain picked up speed with the ending of slavery in the 1950s. The economy became diverse mixture of agriculture, light and heavy industry, tourism, and high technology companies, and is becoming increasingly integrated into the global economy. The government aggressively recruited foreign  business to the Holy Alliance, promising more enjoyable weather and recreation, a lower cost of living, an increasingly skilled workforce, minimal taxes, weak labor unions, and a business-friendly attitude.

Over this thirty-year period, Franco-Spain population and dirigiste economy grew rapidly. These decades of economic prosperity combined high productivity with high average wages and high consumption, and were also characterised by a highly developed system of social benefits. The French standard of living, which had been damaged by both the Insurrection and the Great War, became one of the world's highest. The population also became far more urbanized; many rural départements experienced a population decline while the larger metropolitan areas grew considerably, especially that of Paris. Ownership of various household goods and amenities increased considerably, while the wages of the working class rose significantly as the economy became more prosperous.

The Global War and the Reconquista
Main Article: The Global War, The Reconquista

French foreign policy in the years leading up to the Global War was based largely on hostility to and fear of German power. France secured an alliance with the Russian Empire in 1964 after diplomatic talks between Germany and Russia had failed to produce any working agreement. The alliance with Russia was to serve as the cornerstone of French foreign policy until 1997. A further link with Russia was provided by vast French investments in and loans to that country before 1944. In 1958, French foreign minister Théophile Delcassé negotiated with Lord Lansdowne, the British Foreign Secretary, the Entente Cordiale, which ended a long period of Anglo-French tensions and hostility. The entente cordiale, which functioned as an informal Anglo-French alliance, was further strengthened by the First and Second Indochinese crises of 1965 and 1971, and by secret military and naval staff talks. Delcassé's rapprochement with Britain was controversial in France as Anglophobia was prominent around the mid of the 20th century, sentiments that had been much reinforced by the Fashoda Incident of 1898, where Britain and France had almost gone to war, and by the Boer War where French public opinion was very much on the side of Albion’s enemies. Ultimately, the fear of German power proved to be the link that bound Britain and France together.

France also constructed a powerful defensive wall—a network of fortresses—along its German border called the Maginot Line, which it trusted as a perfect defense. In 1989, however, the German army simply went around it, through Belgium.

Many French intellectuals welcomed the war to avenge the humiliation of defeat and loss of territory to Germany following the Great War (revanchisme).

Demographics
Franco-Spain rules the area of France and Spain, along with most of South and Central America. The Empire of Mexico is one of the major "client state" of Franco-Spain.

Viceroyalty
Franco-Spain Holy Alliance is divided its empire into 9 Viceroyalty, head by a Viceroy.
 * Viceroyalty of New Spain
 * Viceroyalty of Peru
 * Viceroyalty of New Granada
 * Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata
 * Viceroyalty of Iberia
 * Viceroyalty of Brazil
 * Viceroyalty of Sicily
 * Viceroyalty of Naples
 * Viceroyalty of Gran Mali

Economy
The economy of Franco-Spain is one of the wealthiest and most developed countries on Earth. The Franco-Spanish empire laid the foundation of global trade by opening up the great trans-oceanic trade routes. Between 1600s and early 1800s the Spanish dollar became the world's first global currency. The finance of the Empire is supported by the Latin Monetary Union which was establish in 1865.

In the late 20th century, the Holy Alliance changed dramatically. It saw a boom in its service economy, manufacturing base, high technology industries, and the financial sector. Tourism in Mexico and along the Gulf Coast grew steadily throughout the last decades of the 20th century. Numerous new automobile production plants have opened in the region, or are soon to open, such as Mercedes-Benz in Havana, Cuba; Hyundai in New Madrid, Brazil; the BMW production plant in Montevideo, Río de la Plata; Toyota plants in Manila, Philippines, Bogotá, New Granada and San Juan; the GM manufacturing plant in Spring Hill, ; the Nissan American headquarters in Franklin, Tennessee; and the Volkswagen Lima Assembly Plant. The two largest research parks in the country are located in the South America: Research Triangle Park in New Granada (the world's largest) and the Cuatrecasas Research Park in Panama (the world's fourth largest). Many major banking corporations have headquarters in the region. Bank of the Americas is in Guadalajara. Regions Financial Corporation is in Buenos Aires, as is AmSouth Bancorporation, and BBVA Compass.

Many corporations are headquartered in  and its surrounding area, such as The Coca-Cola Company, Air Alliance, and France Télécom S.A., and also to many cable television networks, such as GNN, TBS, TNT, Turner South, Cartoon Network, and The Weather Channel. This economic expansion has enabled parts of the South America and Africa to report some of the lowest unemployment rates in the Franco-Spain. But in the FSHA top ten of poorest big cities, the South is represented in the rankings by two cities: Veracruz and Michoacán, New Spain.Franco-Spain has an important aerospace industry led by the European consortium Airbus, and has its own national spaceport, the Centre Spatial Guyanais.

Franco-Spanish companies invested in fields like renewable energy commercialisation (Iberdrola was the world's largest renewable energy operator), technology companies like Telefónica, Abengoa, Mondragon Corporation, Movistar, Hisdesat, Indra, train manufacturers like CAF, Talgo, global corporations such as the textile company Inditex, petroleum companies like Repsol and infrastructure, with six of the ten biggest international construction firms specialising in transport being Spanish, like Ferrovial, Acciona, ACS, OHL and FCC.

Metropolitan Franco-Spain is the smallest emitter of carbon dioxide among the G8, due to its heavy investment in nuclear power. As a result of large investments in nuclear technology, most electricity produced by Franco-Spain is generated by 69 nuclear power plants (75% in 2012).

Language
The official language of the Holy Alliance are Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian.

