Name - République Formosain (French) / 台灣共和國 (Chinese) / ꦫꦺꦥꦹꦧꦃꦭꦷꦏ ꦦ꦳ꦺꦴꦫꦃꦩꦺꦴꦱꦴ (Javanese) / Haring Bayang Pormosa (Tagalog)

Continent - Asia

Capital - Taïouanefou [Tainan]

Head of state - Grand Elector -------

Head of government - Consul of the Interior -------

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

President of the Tribunate -

First Tribune -

President of the Legislative Body -

Conserving body - College of Conservators

President of the College of Conservators -

Judiciary - High Council of Revision

President of the High Council of Revision -

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

Form of law - Cambacérès Code

Demonym - Formosan

Area - 37,214 km^2

Largest cities

-Taïouanefou

-Tacaou [Kaohsiung]

-Tatoune [Taichung]

Time zone - TMP+08:00

Currency - Formosan piastre

Language - French, Chinese, Javanese, Tagalog

Population - 14,247,000

Density - 382.84/km^2

National festival - Independence Day - celebrating the end of the French Protectorate (1944)

Anthem -

Motto -

+OTL ROC: 36,197

+Miyako: 226.20

+Yaeyama: 587.16

+Batanes: 203.22

=TTL Formosa: 37,213.58

-grabbed from China after downfall of Qing

-French troops storm into Formosa and give its governor "support" and establish a sort of legal limbo in Formosa

-many Manchu refugees, fleeing brutal reprisals, come to it as well

-its many revolts in years that follows are suppressed by French

-French establish large-scale plantations to do manual labor of cash crops

-and import many Javanese and other Malayan peoples, and also later Filipinos, as part of colonization project

-with Russia's Wars > Russo-Chinese War (1893-9), decide to end legal limbo, Formosa declared a republic

-but a fictional one, declared tied to France in its very constitution