Franco-British Union

The Franco-British Union is a country in Western Europe. At the most desperate hour of the United Kingdom and the French Republic, the two nations forged one indissoluble union, and would go on to achieve victory in the Second Great War. The Union is a unitary, semi-constitutional monarchy and its territories span the Americas, Africa, Middle East, South Asia and Pacific. It is considered to be a superpower alongside the Soviet Union and the leading nation of the Organisation of United Nations. The Union is a permanent executive council member of the League of Nations.

Geography
The Union spans 3,556,578 square kilometres, primarily being composed of the lands of the former United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the Third French Republic. It also includes a number of other territories integrated or acquired after the war, such as the colonies of Guiana, Guadeloupe and Martinique in the case of the former, or Sarre, Menorca and the Roya and Aran Valleys in the case of the latter. It has coastal access to the North and Irish Seas, as well as the wider Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea, not including the vast colonial ports across its empire.

Colonies and Dependencies
The Franco-British Empire is the largest empire in the world, and by land area the largest polity in the world, surpassing even the Soviet Union. The Union inherited the colonial possessions and alliances of the French and British, which had been ever-expanding since the 15th century.

In Africa, Franco-British colonies, protectorates and mandates practically dominate the entire continent, with the few exceptions that are the Belgian and Portuguese colonial empires and the free African nations of Ethiopia and Liberia.

In the Middle East, the mandates awarded after the Great War have at long last transitioned to being legally independent states, albeit still under significant Franco-British influence. These nations are, of course, neighboured by the many Arab monarchies that exist under Franco-British protection, Saudi Arabia, and the Aden Colony linked to the Raj.

In South Asia, the Pearl of the Empire sits mighty, along with the many princely states under British protection and neighboured by the Colony of Burma. From the Indian Empire, the Union exerts her influence across the entire Indian Ocean and beyond.

In the Far East, the Union is ever-present. Controlling the militarily and economically critical straits of Malacca and Singapore, the Union in turn commands the loyalty of the local sultanates. Throughout the region, Franco-British influence can be felt from the economic core that is Hong Kong to the Commonwealth of Australia and New Zealand in the South Pacific.

In the New World, Canada is the main Franco-British presence in the hemisphere, though the Union too dominates the West Indies through a series of colonies and overseas territories.