French Social Republic (Vote Socialist)

The French Social Republic was a centralized nationalist republic based on the model of the German Empire under the NSPD. It was established after the Germans defeated the French Kingdom in World War II. The Social Republic sought to accomodate both moderate leftists and reactionary rightists under one regime through an ideologically ambigious authoritarian structure. The Presidents of the Republic were all from the French Popular Party which opted to collaborate with the Germans after they had occupied France. The first president, Marcel Deat, described his ideology as Neosocialism, a revisionist current of marxism that stressed the spirit of the nation and the need for top down revolution. In terms of foreign policy, Deat kept his Republic at odds with the Socialist Powers and friendly with the capitalist United Kingdom. The Republic would continue to decay as the German Empire weakened and colonial wars in Indochina and Algeria would continue to cause cracks in the German bloc. Eventually, in May 1968, a wave of revolutionary sentiment passed across the World and the arch-conservative government of Trixier-Vignancour would be overthrown and replaced with a new French Fifth Republic which would inherit many problems from the Social Republic and break down into civil war between capitalists and communists.