Avant-Garde France

**Avant-Garde France** is the leader of the League Solar with the only other starting members being the Caribbean Futuriste, and the Italian Regency of Camaro, also known as Fiume.

## History

After their failure in the Great War, France was thrown into chaos as its unstable Liberal Democracy collapsed in on itself. Riots and street battles became commonplace and crushed any sense of peace. The masses demanded justice for the dead and the post war youth rejected reactionary traditions.

In 1920, as France pulled itself out of chaos amidst the first world war and the damage caused by the SFIO’s breaking of the Union Sacrée, Action Française under Georges Bernanos established the Fourth French Republic. Cracking down hard on the left, they lost control when in 1924, with permission from the Pope, they attempted to begin a restoration of the French monarchy under the House of Orléans by moving the capital to Orléans. This sparked immense rioting and almost plunged France into a civil war, as the entire French nation had grown tired and sick of politicians, statesmen and gentlemen and seeing the old values fail yet again.

They craved someone to speak to the rage boiling under their shattered pride, paving the way for Antonin Artaud, a visionary and a man with a knack on playing on the crowd's passions and instincts, allowing Antonin Artaud with the backing of the Escadron and André Breton who was able to placate the mob, to become Mayor of Paris. However in 1928, when the reins of the national government changed hands again, Artaud and his clique rallied the people and initiated an all out assault on the Republic to overthrow the government and seize power, which culminated in Artaud famously tearing apart the constitution of the French Fourth Republic, throwing it into the Seine, and proclaiming the renaming of Paris to Le Soleil in 1934.

This led to more rioting, which was swiftly put down by the Escadron, and resulted in Artaud declaring himself Le Patron of the État Avant-Garde de France on the anniversary of the Paris Commune’s founding. Now the country is focused on two values: speed and revenge.

## Acéphale

The **Acéphale** are a group of aristocrats and artists that form part of a secret society very influential in France, their goal is to achieve an artistic and corporatist state rather than a country, their main objectives are to decentralize the state and democratize it so everyone has a voice on the government and develop an economy (you can choose) based on an exportation focus to the world or becoming the black market of the globe for anyone in need, this is not very well seen by the squadron since they want to destroy the old civilization.

## Escadron

The **Escadron**, which translates to Squadron, are a type of military faction lead by Charles Nungesser whose main goal is revenge. They also try to reform the culture of the French society, trying to revive the revolutionary spirit of the French Revolution and also indoctrinating the Algerians of their colonies, and wish to create a state that defies reality, L'État Irréel (translation: The Irreal State).

## L'État Irréel

**L'État Irréel** is an idea that believes that there is nothing such as France believing that the people living in avant-garde aren't people anymore but avatars of the future itself, the spark of creation, and therefore are one with "Le Patron", as it is he who directs all of the creative endeavors of Humanity.

Unlike other nations, AI France is automatically set to go through the Escadron path in the custom settings instead of being allowed to choose whatever path it wants.

## The Druidists

Alas, we arrive at the most radical of them all: the man, the myth, the nutjob himself, Marc Augier. Upon ascending to leadership, while some may cheer, most people, even the most fanatical of futurists, are shocked by Augier’s dark horse victory. Many people abandoned their agrarian careers to pursue the previous goals of technological futurism, only to now be faced with an anti-industrial opponent in power.

## The Green-Shirts path

Augier’s normal vision for France is to return to an era of Celtic faith, autonomous rural communities, and an absolutely indivisible France. Upon solidifying their identity, futurism will have taken a new form; one rejecting post-Roman “accelerationism” in favor of organic and local acceleration to the utopia. France shall return to the Celtic way of living, this implies living in a kind of tribal society where there is no private propriety and the cultural revival of the Celtic way of living and the replacement of the French language with Breton (a Celtic-descended language).

## The Druidist extreme path

If Augier is shot during his inauguration, he will be reborn as an utterly broken and twisted man. His ideals will be distorted, his methods will become more insane, and he still has an entire nation’s resources to achieve his hellish utopia. Now he believes that industrialization and urbanization was a mistake for the human race and that it should be destroyed, by breaking the hegemony of farms and cities and worshiping the old Celtic gods in order to create an anarcho-primitivistic utopia, or so they envision.

He will attempt to achieve total anarchy and decentralization. Buildings will be burned to the ground, factories will be obliterated, which results in in-game factories being destroyed, and even the farms themselves will be revoked in favor of a hunter-gatherer existence. Even the military itself will be dissolved, in favor of a massive horde of informal, sparsely-armed militias, roaming the nation in search of food and to hunt enemies of Augier.

Of course, these militias will meet some opposition, such as lack of arms due to all the factories being destroyed and a lack of order in society. To rectify these errors, Le Patron and Augier will have to take some harsh measures to return humanity to a pre-civilization state by seeking to destroy civilization itself and to make people live purely like animals, purely on instinct with no logic or rationality. Think anthropomorphic werewolves from fiction and you can get a pretty good idea of what Augier's vision looks like.

## Expansionism

There are two ways of expansionism and those are:

### Ideological Expansionism

**Ideological Expansionism** is the one that tries to approach to other accelerationist countries or tries to create new ones, there are 2 approaches to do this and those are a focus on Slavic countries (Yugoslavia and Poland) and an approach on "Latin" countries (the Technocrats in the United States and Fiume)

### Territorial Expansionism

**Territorial Expansionism** is more clear since it's purely declaring war on countries to take their lands, the first act of expansionism you can make is taking control of Wallonia, then you have to choose between attacking the Councilists or the British and their empire. You can also decide to occupy Catalonia when the Spanish Civil War starts.

## References

* Progress Report 11: F R A N C E (Current France)
* Progress Report 27: France Rework (Upcoming rework for France}