[C22] France News
Aug. 10th, 2005 10:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldThings continue to go well for France in the 22nd century, more specifically in the early 2130s. Economic growth has been reasonably high, new colonies and outposts are popping up, and French technology remains high. The French population is growing sharply, aided by productive relationships with Vietnam, Madagascar, and new Central Africa, supporting a large and prosperous home territory and booming American and Pacific extrametropolitan areas. France is doing well. Trade routes unite France with its colony at Alpha Centauri's mild greenhouse world. More, triangular routes exist: Sol with the French exclave at Procyon's near-habitable world and the new colony at 82 Eridani's habitable world, Sol with the joint French-Iberian-Japanese-Korean-Southeast Asian colony complexes at Tau Ceti and the nascent colony on Epsilon Indi's young garden world, and shortly, a long-haul route uniting Sol with French colonies on the habitable globes at HJ 5173 and 36 Ophiuchi. Things are good for France.
They could be better, though. France has a high rate of population growth, and a higher rate of economic growth. The first mostly cancels out the second, requiring France to be more innovative in order to keep up to its slower-growth European neighbours. French success is, well, questionable. It doesn't particularly help that the world appears to be moving towards a multi-tiered geopolitical structure where the Great Powers (United States, China, India, Brazil) and other reasonably-sized hegemons like Mexico and Southeast Asia are predominating, despite Europe's effective lack of unity. It doesn't help that France risks becoming overextended with its ambitious colonial networks. It certainly doesn't help that the Great Powers keep clashing, even though we have discovered that the aliens are actually sentient velociraptors apparently driven off their homeworld by the galactic hegemons, and that the aliens have a 25% infant mortality rate. This infant mortality rate is particularly worrisome, indicating either a bizarrely underdeveloped medical technology, a lack of interest in saving the lives of young aliens, or some sort of interest in taking their lives. None of these options suggest good things about the aliens' psychology, particularly given how they insist on being our intermediaries.
Ah, well. If they scour Earth bare and slaughter the colonies I'll be sure to let everyone know.
They could be better, though. France has a high rate of population growth, and a higher rate of economic growth. The first mostly cancels out the second, requiring France to be more innovative in order to keep up to its slower-growth European neighbours. French success is, well, questionable. It doesn't particularly help that the world appears to be moving towards a multi-tiered geopolitical structure where the Great Powers (United States, China, India, Brazil) and other reasonably-sized hegemons like Mexico and Southeast Asia are predominating, despite Europe's effective lack of unity. It doesn't help that France risks becoming overextended with its ambitious colonial networks. It certainly doesn't help that the Great Powers keep clashing, even though we have discovered that the aliens are actually sentient velociraptors apparently driven off their homeworld by the galactic hegemons, and that the aliens have a 25% infant mortality rate. This infant mortality rate is particularly worrisome, indicating either a bizarrely underdeveloped medical technology, a lack of interest in saving the lives of young aliens, or some sort of interest in taking their lives. None of these options suggest good things about the aliens' psychology, particularly given how they insist on being our intermediaries.
Ah, well. If they scour Earth bare and slaughter the colonies I'll be sure to let everyone know.
