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What if France broke into pieces?

2 pieces broke away, and its family still holds 0.6% of the world.

2026: France falls apart into a dozen states. We let the world run for 300 years and wrote down what happened.

Of 133 countries put through the same fate, France did better than 107 of them.

Its share of the world

1. 2026: 0.5%
2. 2036: 0.4%
3. 2051: 0.4%
4. 2076: 0.5%
5. 2126: 0.5%
6. 2176: 0.6%
7. 2226: 0.6%
8. 2326: 0.6%

Year by year

• 2026: Lyon League broke away.
• 2026: People's Republic of Nice broke away.
• 2040: went to war with Suriname.
• 2042: made peace with Lyon League.
• 2049: Switzerland attacked.
• 2053: went to war with Lyon League.
• 2114: took People's Republic of Nice.
• 2152: took Suriname.
• 2211: took Netherlands.

What happened

• At its height, in 2139, it held 0.6% of the world.
• Its first war of its own came in 2040, against Suriname.
• The first piece to break away was Lyon League, in 2026.
• Along the way it swallowed People's Republic of Nice, Suriname, Netherlands.
• 12 wars in 300 years.

The world in 2326

In 2326, Russia ruled 17.1% of the Earth, ahead of Canada and United States of America. 105 nations were left standing.

"I have stopped being surprised. That is a lie." Max, for the record

Run it yourself

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Is this what would really happen?

No one can know. This is one run of a game engine that simulates every country on the real map: wars by temperament, armies from land and people, civil wars, golden ages. Same seed, same result, every time.

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