-Sieyes’ state, with weird constitution

-Consul of Interior absorbs power gradually

Compagnie générale de la télégraphie photonique

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Name - République française (French)

Continent - Europe

Capital - Paris

Head of state - Grand Elector Stanislas Poniatowski

Head of government - Consul of the Interior (and President of the Council of State) François Díaz

Legislature - Council of State & Tribunate (initiative), Legislative Body (decision)

President of the Tribunate - Marie-Odette Martin

First Tribune - Youri Fiodorofe

President of the Legislative Body - Nicole Bodier

Conserving body - College of Conservators

President of the College of Conservators - Michel Horvath

Judiciary - High Council of Revision, Tribunal of State Crimes

President of the High Council of Revision - Laurent Schwartz

President of the Tribunal of State Crimes - Raymond Dicalabria

Form of government - Unitary republic under a democratic solonic consular constitution

Form of law - Cambacérès Code

Demonym - French

Area - 627,873 km^2

Largest cities

-Paris - 9,715,000 (city), 24,677,000 (metro)

-Aix-la-Chappelle - 2,113,000 (city), 9,412,000 (metro)

-Anvers - 1,523,000 (city), 3,632,000 (metro)

Time zone

-TMP+00:00 (mainland)

-TMP-04:00 (Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Macapá Spatiodrome Concession)

Currency - French franc

Language - French

Population - 131,324,241

Density - 209.16/km^2

National festivals

-Bastille Day (July 14) - commemorating the Storming of the Bastille (1789)

-Republic Day (September 21) - commemorating the abolition of the monarchy (1792)

Anthem - La Marseillaise

Motto - Liberté, égalité, fraternité

-head of state - Grand Elector

-literally just appoints the Consuls

-serves for 16 year terms, recalled by College of Conservators

-executive power vested in complex apparatus led by Consuls

-Consul of the Interior is the effective head of government

-Consul of the Exterior is the effective foreign minister

-Each Consul appoints and dismisses their own Chamber of Political Justice, which:

-lays fixed penalties against ministers, state councillors, and high judges

-prevents negligence, corrects mistakes, and ensures rapid and regular administration

-Under the Consul of the Interior are the:

-Domestic Superintendency, with the Ministers for General Sub-Delegation, for General Instruction, for Public Property, and for National Insurance

-National Magistrature, with the Ministers for Civil and Rural Police, Tutelary Police, Judicial Prosecution, and Law Enforcement

-Superintendency of Finance, with the Ministers for Assessment and Collection of Taxes, and the Treasury

-Under the Consul of the Exterior is the:

-Superintendency of Foreign Affairs, with the Ministers for Foreign Affairs, the Army, the Navy, and the Colonies

-Each minister has their own agents and functionaries

-They have a Chamber of Ministerial Justice which operate under the same principles as the Chamber of Political Justice

-The legislature consists of a Council of State, the Tribunate, and the Legislative Body

-The Legislative Body is:

-elected in four-year terms staggered by each year

-ratifies laws proposed by either the Tribunate and Council of State silently

-each of which sends 3 members to discuss members in front of them

-400 members

-The Council of State is:

-appointed by the Consul of the Interior from the National Notables

-executes, drafts, and proposes laws

-makes regulations binding on functionaries

-appoints the Court of Administration

-50 members

-The Tribunate is:

-selected from the remainder of the National Notables

-represents the opposition, the "people" against the "government"

-drafts and proposes laws

-opposes and debates the Council of State

-refers laws for constitutional review (with 1-year limit)

-50 members

-The conserving power consists of the College of Conservators, which:

-has 8-year terms

-operates the Republican Guard

-appoints the Grand Elector, and removes if necessary

-annuls unconstitutional laws

-puts up proposed constitutional ameliorations in plebiscites

-appoints member proposed by legislature

-100 members

-The notables are elected by the people, prop. by department/communes

-100 national notables, majority section selects consuls, half in Council of State, other half in Tribunate

-10*(#dept) departmental notables, from whom prefect and select servants selected

-10*(#commune) communal notables, from whom mayor and select servants selected

(Estimated from a panel of 30,000 randomly selected residents, 2021)

-Independent Catholicism is the result of a much larger split over papal infallibility, with many breakaway clergy taking away their laity with them

-Orthodoxy is the product of great amounts of immigration from Eastern Europe, incl. many people from erstwhile Ottoman Empire, and then formation of a French Orthodox Church w/ exarch recognized by Constantinople (but partially successful)

-Protestantism dramatically expanded by, first, annexation of chiefly Protestant French Switzerland, and second, by massive amounts of immigration from Protestant countries (chiefly Germany and Sweden) in 19th century

-Islam is result of immigration as much as OTL, but with more immigration from East Indies

-without Napoleon, Jewish emancipation happens decades later in much of Europe, and so a lot of German Jews immigrate following stuff like Hep-Hep riots (worse due to identification of Judaism with France), and more immigration from Russia and Lithuania afterwards because a lot of Jews view it as a cause to bring them in

-The Ruhr and the Rhine, and much of Belgium to Lille, from Lille to Brussels to Antwerp to Liège to Aachen and extending to Cologne, is one giant conurbation of sorts called L'Aigle (the Eagle) centred around Aix-la-Chappelle

-which developed bc it just has that much coal, also in OTL Aachen was the industrial center of the Ruhr till mid-19th century

-this area got bombed bad during French Wars > Sixth French War (1937-41), reconstructed well in its wake with modern industry

-so Rust Beltification escapes it while Paris and other cities face it

-with Paris eventually recovering but not before it loses a fair bit investment to rising conurbation

-also means centre of silicon industry after development of the crystal valve (Analyzers > ^523202) is in this conurbation

-Paris encompasses the entire Seine department

-more people and more industry boosts a whole bunch of cities

-Liege and Aix-la-Chappelle are effectively 1 metro area

-Anvers benefits from rail links, getting to be main port of Ruhr-Rhine-Flanders industrial region

-Metz is no longer right at the border, booming as a result

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