Fiction:Commonwealth of French Andromeda

The Commonwealth of French Andromeda is a federal presidential republic in the Andromeda Galaxy and a member of the French Colonial Empire. Officially proclaimed as a semi-sovereign state in 2803, the commonwealth's origins can be traced back to a number of French colonial waves in the 2730's, 2740's, and 2750's, creating eight colonial states by 2750. These distinct states, possessing their own mutually exclusive cultures, would expand outwards over the course of the century, eventually founding thirty states as part of a grander union. Separated from the mother country by millions of lightyears, they faced challenges, wars, and triumphs which cemented their identities as a set of independent, Andromeda-centric, and diverse peoples, identities which strongly inform relations between the Commonwealth and the Empire today.

The union, known as the French Andromedan Colonies, French Andromeda for short, was founded in 2758 immediately after a disastrous war with Xenian neighbors. As the only colonial society not on the brink of financial ruin, Richelieu's democratically- obsessed political culture would become the foundation for French Andromeda's government, overriding the cultural impulses of its neighbors. Richelieu was anointed the capital of French Andromeda. Over the course of several wars in the 2760's, 2770's, and 2780's, the borders of French Andromeda would expand northwars. The Xenian nations, and later the Toupes-Lézards, would be annexed and colonized with help from allies like the Draconid Imperium. French Andromeda would return the favor during the Andromeda war in the 2780's, and became a founding member of the Andromedan Galactic Commonwealth.

In the 2790's, during heavy involvement in the Great Tyranny War, French Andromeda found itself reunited with its parent, the French Sixth Republic as the latter became increasingly able to project political and military power to other galaxies. Tensions flared under the surface, resulting in the election of arch-conservative David Fauvre to the presidency in 2795. French Andromedans feared the Maxime administration's policies which threatened to usurp power from the practically sovereign government of the colonies, and caused a serious split in loyalties between the mother country and a greater Andromedan identity. These concerns would be tabled with the onset of war with the Delpha Coalition of Planets in the early 2800's, but would violently resurface in 2802 when France surrendered. The Maxime administration would replaced by a pro-DCP, liberal, and unitary regime beholden to the newly-created Human Superstate, both of which saw French Andromeda as just another territory. The Fauvre administration clashed with these entities on many fronts, defending the imperial arrangement establish under Maxime against sweeping attempts to redefine it.