Hey, I've got a WIP for a Free Republic of Normandy that I'd like to be closely aligned with the potential English faction. I've got a feeling that France may have been a major faction in the previous RP, and that I'll probably have to gut the history to make it resemble more closely to what really happened. Haven't had a chance to have a look yet though, I'm just hashing ideas. Anyway, I've gone for a militarily retarded country that has procured genetically advanced crops. It has survived so far because the English intervened and stopped the rest of France from destroying it not long after the Normans emerged from their bunker. After I've finished the history, it'll end with them being on similar tech to the England nation, and will be on the verge of an attempt to retake France (with English support!) This is of course all subject to what you guys think, especially Iluvatar, but like I say I'm just throwing ideas down at the moment. I'll have a look at the previous RP later tonight, when I have some time to sit down and properly absorb information. Just wanted to grab the territory more than anything ;) [hider=Space Saver] [center][img]http://www.clker.com/cliparts/4/c/c/3/1362509245234801692Flag%20of%20Upper%20Normandy.svg.hi.png[/img][/center] [center][h2]La République gratuit de Normandie[/h2] [h3](The Free Republic of Normandy)[/h3][/center] [hr] [center][b]What Areas Do You Control (Territories):[/b] Normandy, North France [b]Political Party (What Party leads the Nation):[/b] Le Parti de la Liberté (The Freedom Party) [b]Type of Government (Self Explanatory):[/b] Under the leadership of the Freedom Party, the Free Republic of Normandy has established and evolved an extreme form of democracy, where key decision making is made by state-wide referendums and where laws are lax when it comes to restricting individual behavior. Drug use, gun ownership, the economy and other such areas are largely unregulated, with the Government acting as merely a societal and functionary framework. [b]Date Out of Bunker:[/b] 2260 [b]Productions (What your nation Produces):[/b] Normandy is blessed with rich agricultural lands, that have largely escaped the destruction of the War of Gods. Thus, it is often referred to as the "Bread Basket of Europe", being able to produce an abundance of food crops. [b]History of the Nation (Self Explanatory):[/b] With the world on the brink of mutually assured destruction, the unity of France was fractured by a wide skew of politicians who sought to protect themselves from the inevitable. Civil unrest broke out across the nation, leading to large uprising against government forces, which ultimately led to the Fall of France before the bombs had even struck Paris. In the chaos, the French President relinquished his power to the military. The commanders of France's armed forces realized that there could be no victory in a nuclear war, and instead focused their efforts on evacuating the population to all of the designated "Post-War Survival Centres" that were dotted along the country's extremities. One such centre was located in Normandy, fifty miles south of Cherbourg. Approximately 45,000 civilians were successfully evacuated to the massive underground complex, but France was finally struck by a nuclear barrage, and the surface world became an inferno. For 200 years, the survivors lived in relative safety. They turned their efforts towards engineering food sources that could withstand the scarred world that would great them, and shunned the idea of developing weapons as a waste of resources. Hadn't the world seen enough carnage? When the survivors left the bunker, after external scanners revealed the atmosphere to be habitable, they were proved bitterly wrong. France was overrun by a multitude of peoples, who had gotten to the surface earlier than them from the other bunkers across the country. Hostilities ensued, despite efforts at diplomacy; the Normandy faction had secured their demise however, after letting slip information about their advanced food crops. These crops became the treasure chest that the whole of France wanted, and war erupted. Out numbered and lacking heavily in military hardware, the Normans (as they had taken to calling themselves), reached out to an established survivor colony in England, that they had detected via their bunker's long ranged transmitter. (TO BE CONTINUED :D) [b]Main Race (What is your State Race + Racial Demographics): [/b] 80% Caucasian 10% African 5% Middle Eastern 5% Various [b]Main Religion (What is your State Religion + Religious Demographics):[/b] 50% Agnostic/Athiest 40% Roman Catholic 10% Islam[/center] [/hider]