French Republic

The **French Republic** is a starting nation in Road to 56, and one of the 7 major powers. The mod offers a unique national focus tree for the country, with the option to use the vanilla one.

The Metropolitan France portion of the French Republic borders the Spanish Republic to the south, the Kingdom of Italy to the southeast, the Swiss Confederation and the German Reich to the east, and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of Belgium to the northeast. Through overseas territories, France also borders the Netherlands, Brazil, Portugal, Liberia, the Belgian Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Turkey, Iraq, the Mandate of Palestine, the British Raj, and the Guanxi Clique.

France starts with a wide colonial empire, netting them many resources and strategic territories. They also start with level 10 forts along the border with Germany. However, the French Republic is crippled by multiple damaging national spirits in the early game, such as Disjointed Government, with more debuffs from Deflation starting midway throughout 1936.

## Base Statistics

### **Population**

The French Republic has a starting core population of 42.25M and a non-core population of 46.44M. However, France starts the game with the national spirit Full Employment, cutting it's effective recruitable population by 25%.

### **Military**

The French Republic starts the game with 72 divisions, the 2nd largest starting army in the game following the Soviet Union. However, much of this army is unequipped, and as such it might be advantageous to delete some units to save equipment.

France also starts with the largest air force in the game at 1647 aircraft and the fifth largest navy totaling 136 ships, with 13 of those being capital ships.

### **Economy**

The French Republic begins the game with 33 Civillian factories, 10 dockyards, and 8 military factories. This means that France can construct more industry rather quickly, but will not be able to manufacture much equipment until later on.

### **Civillian and War Infrastructure**

Most of Metropolitan France has between level 3 or 4 infrastructure, with many air bases scattered around. The border with Germany is reinforced with level 10 forts, making any direct assault by Germany very difficult. France also has an early focus to max out much of it's infrastructure, which will greatly speed up industry construction.

## Politics

### **Starting Leader**

Pierre Laval begins as the Democratic ( Democratic Conservatism ) leader of the French Republic. His traits are:

* **Humble Appeaser:**
	+ Stability: +10%
	+ War Support: -5%

### **National Spirits**

The French Republic begins with 7 national spirits:

* **London Naval Treaty Signatory:**
	+ Carrier Max Cost: 9500
	+ Cruiser Max Cost: 5300
	+ Heavy Ship Max Cost: 10000

* **Victors of the Great War**
	+ Recruitable Population: -0.3%
	+ Land Doctrine Cost: +50%
* **Disjointed Government**
	+ Daily Political Power Cost: +0.25
	+ Stability: -25%
	+ Surrender Limit: -50%
* **Protected by the Maginot Line**
	+ Planning Speed: -25%
	+ Max Planning: +25%
* **Political Violence**
	+ Surrender Limit: -5%
	+ Ideology Drift Defense: -5%
* **Full Employment**
	+ Recruitable Population Factor: -25%
* **Outdated Airforce Equipment**
	+ Air Research Speed -25%