France

Might I step in and ask what happened to this French thread?

Shouldn't we discuss what Napoleon should have done to maintain his empire?

Why did the French lose the colonial game in the new world?

The hell you even talking about? The reasons for split were economical. There wasn't some sort of a big uproar over how the federation should be ended, there wasn't any kind of refferend, it was just our politicians sitting together and going "splitting the country would help the economy" and so they did that.

Their continuous lost against the English.

After Napoleon defeat, France effectively becomes England's pet.

This is some big talk from an American. You aren't exactly military geniuses either.

If a country has such a weak cohesion that it splits apart because of economic reasons, there isn't really anything to hold them together anyway.

There wasn't anything pulling us apart either, though.

The Slovakians were unhappy because the obvious economical disparity between the Slovakian and Czech territories and what they claimed to be "Praha sucking away the money from Slovakia". Not to mention the fact that if we don't take the linguistical similarities into consideration (Slovakian language is basically 90% Czech) the average Czechs andseem to have as many in common with the average Slovak as the average Anglo has with the average burger.

France was constantly at war with everyone from the 1600's to the last stands of 1800's.
As such it never experienced the European population boom.
France in the 1600's had a QUARTER of the European population. In mid 1800's UK had more and the future German states twice as more.
And the subsequent revolutions of the late 1700's and 1800's made it so it only experienced the second European population boom very marginally.

If french demography had followed the European trend it would be a 400M people country today.

Kinda amazing that Napoleon fought of what? Seven armies with such population count and hasty mobilization.