Vichy France

Vichy France existed during the second world war, half of its territory (North West) was occupied by German's army while the rest of it was considered "free". It included the actual French territory without the Alsace, Lorraine and the colonies. It can be considered as a very bad phase of France. It was an authoritarian regime.

Personality
Vichy France has no pity and tries to impress Germany, thinking he's indispensable, but he's wrong. He's egocentric ( way more than before) and always trying to convince himself he did the right choice. He refused the help from its ancients friends, thinking he can stand up alone. He's no longer saying he's an open country.

Interests
Vichy France changed his motto "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" to "Work, Family, Homeland", which shows what he wanted to focus on.

Flag meaning
Basically the French Flag with an axe with the same colours as the rest for the blades and yellow stars. It has also the motto on it.

History
Vichy France, formally  French State , French  État Français , (July 1940–September 1944), Franceunder the regime of Marshal Philippe Pétain from the Nazi German defeat of France to the Allied liberation in World War II.

The Franco-German Armistice of June 22, 1940, divided France into two zones: one to be under Germanmilitary occupation and one to be left to the French in full sovereignty, at least nominally. The unoccupied zone comprisedthe southeastern two-fifths of the country, from the Swiss frontier near Geneva to a point 12 miles (19 km) east of Tours and thence southwest to the Spanish frontier, 30 miles (48 km) from the Bay of Biscay.

Pierre Lavaljoined the government the day after the armistice was signed and became the main architect of the Vichyregime. It was he who on July 10, 1940, persuaded the National Assembly(summoned at Vichy to ratify the armistice) to grant Pétain authority to promulgate a new constitution (569 votes in favour, 80 against, 18 abstentions), so that Pétain was able, the next day, to assume in his own name full legislative and executive powers in the “French State.” The Vichy governments in fact survived for four years by never promulgatinga new constitution. Their policy changed in tune with the fortunes of the war. When close collaboration with the Germans proved impracticable, a plot was formed at Vichy against Laval, who fell from power in December 1940 and was succeeded as premier by Pierre Étienne Flandin and then by Admiral Jean Darlan. Backed by Charles Maurras’s Action Française  (a newspaper that advocated traditionalist, semiroyalist doctrines), Pétain and Darlan embarked on a period of  attentisme (“wait and see”) in their dealings with Germany. Vichy became, at least superficially, a corporative state. The republican slogan of “Liberty, equality, fraternity” was replaced by “Work, family, fatherland.” A labour charter was passed, and there was much talk of a Pétainist “national revolution.”In April 1942 Laval returned to power and contrived to convince the Germans that they could get more active collaboration from him. Germany was now engaged in massive war with the Soviet Union and with the United States and needed greater security in western Europe. But six months later the whole basis of Vichy’s position was transformed. U.S. and British forces landed in North Africa; the main units of the French fleet were scuttled by their crews at Toulon to prevent their falling into German hands; and on November 11, 1942, Germany occupied the whole of France and disbanded the “armistice army” of Vichy.

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Henceforth, Vichy had no assets with which to bargain, with the exception of the cult of loyalty to Pétain (which still kept some Frenchmen obedient to the armistice) and the cleverness of Laval. It became increasingly a tool of German policy and, by January 1944, included extreme collaborators such as the National Socialist Marcel Déat. Darlan was assassinated in December 1942 in Algiers.

Meanwhile, the Resistance movements against both Vichy and the Germans grew rapidly in strength and significance as large numbers of young men fled to the hills and open country to escape the German forced-labour laws. Living as outlaws in the countryside and aided by the country people and by supplies dropped by aircraft from Great Britain, they harassed German communications and transport in preparation for Allied landings. The six months preceding the Normandy Invasion were a period of civil war in France between the members of the Resistance and the German Gestapo (secret police) aided by Vichy militias. When the provisional government of Charles de Gaulle moved to France after the Allied invasion of Normandy, it took over from a fascist regime in utter collapse. In September 1944, after the liberation of Paris, the new government declared Pétain’s French State abolished, together with all its law

Family

 * France- past self/father/mother (depending)

Friends

 * Francoist Spain
 * Third Reich --
 * Kingdom of Italy

Enemies

 * United Kingdom --
 * USSR --

United Kingdom
The United Kingdom doesn't hate France, he still hopes he will be able to bring back the good old France. He tried to convince Vichy France to disobey to Germany, but Vichy France refused and he was forced to hurt him. He's protecting the little brother who escapes from Germany, the French Resistance, and they are both trying to free him and change his mind.

Third Reich
Their relationship is really unhealthy, Germany always brutalises France who acts like there was nothing. Vichy France did the worse things to try to please.

Free France
Vichy France hates this little guy who appears at the same time as him (his brother) and his trying by all the ways to kill him. On his side, Free France is making his best to change his mind so they could be reunited and make France come back (even if he has to attack him to make him understand). He's like the old rebel part of France.

France
His father he hates because he thinks he did everything wrong. France disappeared, left behind him Vichy France and Free France, one went wrong, guess who... France really hates him and feel ashamed about him (just take a look at Vichy France's history and you'll fast understand why).

USSR
Vichy France thinks communism had weakened the Third Republic and so considered this ideology as an enemy, so it is logical that he doesn't like the USSR at all.