[hider=Trade and Commerce]
The low value of the Euro is slowly working its wonder and this combined with the initiative to publish statistics about France's top 300 companies and the percentage of their production employees working in France makes manufacturers close shop in Asia and reopen in France since they are publicly seen as unpatriotic and vile should they not. The government as broken its stance of business neutrality on this matter and openly points at companies and say that their CEOs are scum, the words of the French prime minister of this particular subject is generally enough to see an enormous drop in sales in the weeks to come and near complete lost of stock value due to the perception that no one will buy their products anymore. While it is more manipulation than the truth, nationalists buy into it and the one to buy the actions of the failing companies for cheap are generally the state or friends of the Presidents from the Government-Industrial Complex. [/hider]

[hider=Public Services]
The Experience Through Service is going along well and the fact that people aren't forced to partake limits public objections. Still, through subtle media manipulation the idea that 'Everyone's doing it' and that failing to sail with the boat now may result in a severe disadvantage as people will military experience and training go look for job encourages people to join through peer pressure. This combined with the factories quickly re-opening contributes to melt the unemployment rate, especially in the youth.

 'Fat shaming' is in all but words encouraged, the official stance of the state being that it isn't about acceptance but health. France reorganizes youth clubs and forms institutions like the youth cadets and scouts, something they were lacking in comparison to commonwealth countries. These camps aim to 'Create a healthy sentiment of brotherhood and community as well as establish french and european nationalism' as well as to help the social and mental development of the kids and establishment of a healthy and disciplined life style. For the sons and daughters of immigrants, this is compulsive. [/hider]

[hider=Taxes]
The close partnership of the government and some areas of the private sectors of course lead to some corruption unfortunately. When news got that a CEO leaked documents regarding the construction of a french weapon system, rather than just terminating the contract, the French government forced the CEO on a military tribunal for high treason and espionage. The mood is set: You don't thread easily with government contracts and if the man is proven guilty, this may create a precedent where corruption is considered treason, something making the bureaucrats sweat more than a little.

Otherwise, as much as the people blame the government on the economic shitstorm in the last month when the government made several high profile bargains and did what would quite frankly be considered insider trading, people cannot deny that the newly nationalized companies bring in both jobs and revenues. The financial situation is looking up but according to the President, it is no reason to lower the taxes. As she is aware that her policy of radicalism makes her unpopular she wishes to do the greatest change possible to France before some more popular candidates willing to tell sweet lies to the people takes over in 5 years. Any surplus will go toward paying the debt. [/hider]

[hider=Military]
The Front National government, avowedly hostile to the idea of NATO took the announcement of cooperation with Australia and Canada of the US as a statement that NATO indeed was a English Sphere alliance with little place for mainland Europe. Further co-development with Germany and the BeNeLux trio is being pushed forward, especially in light of the still going hostilities in Romania and the refusal of Russia to end its ambitions. Germany was open to the idea of France and work begins for a Universal European Service Rifle and Universal Eurotank. Still, opposition was met by the germans when france announced it was dusting off the Concorde and was preparing to build a nuclear super-carrier as well as nuclear powered bombers and transport airplanes. When asked if they had considered the damage to the environment this could do, the french Minister of Defense replied that the plan would be to first not have these planes shot down and second, if it had to be, for these planes to be shut down above enemy territory. There is the feeling France is looking to deter Russia and if the US decided to leave Europe be, then France would take the mantle of guardian of Free Europe.

Troop numbers rise sharply even if most of the men and women are in training. Women are allowed on the battlefield but only if they succeed to the same standards men are expected to have, the nationalized industries also offer their jobs mainly to those willing to be reservists at the same time. [/hider]

[hider=Immigration]
French Canadians and Franco-Belgians are considered citizen almost immediately on arrival while for other European countries this is a formality, non occidental immigration however is almost completely halted with at most residency permits given, the foreigners inquiring about migrating in France are nearly always re-directed to foreign legion recruitment offices. 'Inspired by US reforms', the Ministry of the Interior is also putting in place a biometric databank of its citizens and the French National Bank as emited a new debit and credit card where when users enter public transportation, trains or otherwise, costs are deducted automatically and no driver or security agents bother you during your travel. Some see this with suspicion, as a computer chip allowing the government to follow your every moves, but the convenience offered to those using transportation (And this number rising due to increase in gas price) find this too convenient to pass. Foreign immigrants however now live in terror as with Thales Glasses (New French google glasses), policemen identify illegals and criminals on the streets just by looking at their faces. [/hider]

[hider=Africa]
The fear of the disease triumphs slowly over doubts african governments had about the french presence, this only opening the floodgates to more problems as France wages fear mongering in the world. People panic but see the foreigners as salvation. The shares of Francosphere Mining sky rockets as French lobbyists secure Uranium mines in Congo as well as other metals in other nations. French scientists do what they can and collaborate with the Americans although it is complicated as while part of a government owned corporation, these scientists are still bound by confidenciality of discovered as this pharmaceutical company reserves itself the right of distribution and sales of any vacine or cure that may come out of this. Human research are often conducted on the poorest of the poor and doctors declare that any pursuits made against them are invalid since they didn't know how to write but still agreed to be experimented upon without being able to sign the waver. France makes efforts to locate and categorize any and all strains of the virus, any new strains discovered are sent to facilities in France for further examinations. [/hider]