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| Capital (and largest city) |
Clermont-Ferrand | ||
| Other cities | Poitiers, Agde, Cognac, Mamoudzou, Saint-Denis, Fort-de-France, Basse-Terre, Limoges, Aubusson | ||
| Language official |
French | ||
| others | Occitan, Antillean Creole, Reunionese Creole, Shimaore, Tahitian, Haitian Creole, Marquesan, 'Uvean, Futunan, Drehu, Nengone, Paicî, Ajië | ||
| Religion | secular state | ||
| Government | Parliamentary republic | ||
| President of La République | |||
| Prime Minister | |||
| Area | est 150,000 sq. km km² | ||
| Population | 7,250,000 est. (2020) | ||
| Established | 2017 | ||
| Currency | New Franc | ||
The French Republic (République française), constitutionally referred to as Seventh French Republic (Septième République française) is a constitutional republic situated in both western Europe and various island departments in the Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean and Caribbean Sea. Borne of the reunion of Auvergne and Poitou with the departments of the Republic of the French Southern Territories or the "Sixth Republic", the fragile nation has slowly emerged from the ashes of former metropolitan France to be a predominant force in the area.
Owing to the longtime prosperity and activity of the Overseas territory, the nascent Seventh Republic has endeavored to reconstitute a national identity for the French speaking people of Europe. However, nearly 40 years on from Doomsday it is clear that the "new" France will likely be a fragment of what once was, with the Lille-Flemish and the Burgundians having rejected the project in favor of their own path, enlarged Monaco and Andorra in former French lands, and the Corsicans and Bretons having allegiances of their own now.
History[]
See also: France (1983: Doomsday) and History of France See also: 2010 WCRB Report on France
Background[]
The collapse of metropolitan France sent with it millions of French speaking citizens into a sortied exile, with many fleeing on any ships they could find. By the mid 1990s, there were more native French citizens living overseas than there were in metropolitan France proper, with a handful of isolated regional powers in the north, south, and west controlling their environs with varying degrees of success.
In 1999, on the initiative of the French community in New Zealand, the remaining French Departments, initially the Pacific ones, declared the re-installation of the French Republic as the Sixth Republic, with co-capitals located in Papeete, Tahiti and Nouméa, New Caledonia. Formally it consisted of these territories along with the French possessions Crozet, Kerguelen and Clipperton Islands. These are considered due to recent changes in the climate. With the return of regular contact with the French mainland being more feasible after the Second Sicily War, there are hopes of bringing the entirety of the French people once again under one banner; there was support among many in both the RTA and the European survivor states. There were increasing calls for a comprehensive survey of post-Doomsday France, which aimed to look to establishing a new, re-united French Republic.
The "Sixth Republic" - scattered across the seven seas, the French flag continued to fly above the Overseas Departments.
The High Commissioner of the RTFA represented the French community at large in the League of Nations. Cedric Wairafea, formerly the Commissioner, became the Secretary General of the League of Nations in November of 2011, and was replaced as Commissioner by Edouard Fritch.
With renewed contact with the Pacific French States, Auvergne was the first to make strident efforts to restore more than just contact, and was the first establish an embassy for the French Pacific states in Port Ambonne along the Auvergne-controlled Mediterranean coast. By 2014, Auvergne was a net importer of RFA goods.
2010 Clermont Accords - Foundations and Challenges[]
Discussions of a French "Seventh Republic" became more in the 21st century. On January 7, 2010, Prefect Patrick Stéfanini and Premier Ministre Valéry Giscard d'Estaing expressed their support of unification during the opening ceremonies of the République des Terres Française Australes' (RTFA) embassy in Auvergne. Meanwhile on March 23, 2010, it was announced that a conference for the French-Successor states would be held in Clermont-Ferrand on May 23, 2010. Notice was given to representatives of all French successor states, and observer status has been offered to Luxembourg and Corsica. With the arrival of the WCRB envoy, the French successor states began this era of rapprochement. After the congress was announced, in late April 2010 the first trans-border trains began running from Auvergne to Poitou-Charentes, carrying both passengers and uranium ore to restore the dwindling feed-stocks of the Poitevine nuclear reactors.
The attending WCRB and LoN personnel arriving would compile their own report on the geopolitical outlook of France, which concluded as follows:
"There is a high probability of a reunified France sometime between 2015 and 2020. Though the Seventh Republic will likely be established, it will be more of a confederation at first because of the strong nationalist feelings of the various French survivor states that have joined together to restore France. The RTFA, with economic support from the ANZC and the SAC, is expected to be driving force behind the union. La République Poitevine and Auvergne have some of strongest support for reunification and are suspected to be the first members of the Seventh Republic.
That being said this new France would likely be smaller than the pre-Doomsday France. It is unlikely that Luxemburg, Monaco, Celtic Alliance, Pays-Libres des Basques or Grand-Andorre would surrender their former French territory to this new Republic. These former claims on territory will have to be negotiated over or it may lead to future conflicts if French nationalists demand the return of all former French territory. This new France would also inherit the RTFA's dispute with Canada over the islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon."
La Rochelle: Provisional capital of mainland France
Unité - Birth of the Seventh Republic[]
The congress at Clermont-Ferrand would be a vociferous battle of words between the disparate factions of the Francophonie. While Poitiers and Auvergne found themselves in accord more often than not, conversations regarding governing structure, political bend, and even freedom of religion would be debated by the more conservative Burgundians, and any talk of a future capital devolving into a screaming match on all sides. Ironically, it was the RTA to be the voice of reason in this regard, stating that they would fund fully a brand new capital on the mainland so long as was seaside and had a sizable port. Naturally, this only left three choices - La Rochelle, Auvergne's tenuous exclave in Agde, or Clermont-Ferrand itself. Eventually, a compromise was reached to split the locations of the Presidential Palace, the Cour de cassation (Court of Cassation) and Parliament between the Mainland and the Pacific.
The decision to choose La Rochelle was based on primarily its centrality and Pacific French hesitance to place their bets on perpetual access to the Mediterranean (and possibly a lingering fear of pirates from headlines stemming from the Sicilian Wars).
Territory[]
Mainland
- Poitiers
- Auvergne
- Nord-de-Occitanie
Pacific
- French Polynesia
- New Caledonia
- Wallis & Futuna
- Crozet and Kerguelen
- Clipperton Island
Caribbean
The three departments of the Caribbean are under a single government, the French Antillies (AF)
- St. Barthélemy
- Martinique
- Guadeloupe
Indian Ocean
- Mayotte
- Reunion
Economy[]
The French Republic's economic base remains primarily in its prosperous Pacific and Indian Ocean colonies, with metropolitan France having a median income of less than 10,000$ANZC as of 2020. That being said, an export economy has begun to emerge nonetheless, as the Poitevine coasts and Auvergne become more confident hubs for international investment. Wine, grains, fish and wood are the primary exports of the agricultural sector of the mainland Seventh Republic, as well as talented laborers, with masons and construction workers being highly sought after in Corsican, Spanish and Italian reconstruction efforts.
Demographics[]
The 2020 WCRB World Census would register roughly 7,250,000 individuals residing in the borders of the nascent state in 2020, roughly evenly split between Metropolitan France (3,600,000) and the Islands of France (3,850,000). Demographers have estimated that it would take mainland France anywhere from five to nine generations to recover from the population loss caused by Doomsday.
Mainland Resettlement[]
In many ways, metropolitan France remains a frontier of ever-shifting demographic identity. In recent years, many settlers from French Polynesian, Tahiti, Reunion, have taken to the abandoned wilderness which lie across much of Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Occitanie, although the Centre Val-de-Loire, once famous for Orleans and the famous winemaking Loire Valley, remains a truly wild land. With the metropolitian French population having been on the decline for years has led to the emergence of a cultural hybridity on the mainland, as Polynesian, New Caledonian and French Antilles Creoles, foods and architectural patterns become common fixtures throughout the re-built towns inhabited by the "new colonists".
Réunionese remain the highest enrollees in the re-colonization efforts, followed by those Martinique and elsewhere in the French Antilles. All in all, nearly one million would arrive to the shows of European France by 2023.
Life Expectancy[]
Life expectancy in mainland France remains several years shorter than that of Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Ocean France, due to emergent health problems in the older generation, a higher rate of birth defects, and even the lingering presence of raids in some areas from unaffiliated settlements. The French Foreign Legion has often been deployed to defend the hinterlands and push into "lawless territory".
International Relations[]
The French Republic is a member of the League of Nations.
The Seventh French Republic politics remain oriented to the Oceanic Organization, League of Nations, and other bodies which the Sixth Republic was member to. It is not a member of the Atlantic Defense Community and has no plans of joining the organization, although it has fostered relationships with Portugal and the Republic of Spain. The Seventh Republic's recent history has been plagued with a notoriously poor relations with its neighbors, finding itself in unfeasible territorial disputes with several of its neighbors "right off the bat" of its foundation. Many of the older conservative voices, especially those from the RFA with military service, cannot accept that many parts of the Fifth Republic have united with either the former micro-nations of Andorra and Monaco, the Alpines, were permanently lost to regional secessionist movements such as that of Euskadi, or even to unions with the Celtic Alliance. Several European states have accused it of "endemic irredentism" - a refusal to accept the realpolitik that this Seventh Republic will be permanently smaller than the Fifth.
That being said, it remains one of the most pro-ANZC states in the continental Europe, owing to half of its population being in the Pacific Departments and having a tight-knit economic relations with said Commonwealth. It also enjoys healthy relations with Monaco, as many continental French collaborated with them extensively during the First and Second Sicily Wars.
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