France

France is a country in Western Europe, about 3,500 miles from the United States. At its height it rivalled the British Empire and had lots of collonies. It continued to be a strong presence in Acadamia and has been the birthplace of lots of scholars. It remains a strong presence in the European Union, and is at odds lots with the United Kingdom on issues of EU policy. The capital city is Paris, but the city is dirty and lots of americans don't like how rude people are their.

It was a founder member of the European Coal and Steel treaty which was lead to the EEC and EU. Its contributions to western culture have been immense if contraversial. It greatly assisted the colonies via military and financing to gain their independence from England, established universal legal codes in much of the non anglo saxon west. It made a number of philosophical contributions to the world, including Descartes and Sartre, existentialism and post modernism. Its own colonial behaviour and the treatment of non French soldiers has been criticised of late. It maintains the CFA (African France) in much of west and central Africa. It gifted the statue of liberty to the USA in celebration of its independence, echoeing the French aid given to the colonies during their revolutionary war.

Politics

In March of 2003 A.D., France did not participate in the alliance to remove the [[Baathist] regime in Iraq notable for human rights violations prompting heavy backlash and criticism from the American people, and causing them to question whether France's status as a U.S. ally had been permanently undermined. Lots of americans don't like France and think that it is a weak country.