With the defeat of the British and Iberians in the Americas in the Great American War, Napoleon road to victory in Europe against a weakened British Empire and Iberia. Unable to bring about his goal of total conquest of Europe, Napoleon was still able to lay claim to a considerable amount of territory after the signing of the Treaty of Ghent, which saw the end of the Iberian Empire, the secession of most former-Iberian colonies to France, and the independence of Ireland from the British Empire. France carved out a strong sphere of influence over the following decades, and by the time of the Death of Emperor Napoleon I in 1821, France stood along side America as one of the two great empires of the world.



For the rest of the 19th Century the French Empire saw a number of small wars with its neighbors, but there was rarely any real threat to the Empire beyond the hereditary predisposition to Stomach cancer that left the first Emperors dying after relatively short reigns. It wasn't until 1895 with the crowning of Empress Joséphine I that the Empire found themselves with a stable leader.



Joséphine led her country through the Empire's greatest crisis, the World War. Coordinating with the United States and European allies alike (primarily Rhineland and Finland) France fought for over fifteen years against the Central Powers for dominance of Europe, eventually leading to the collapse of most of the major powers outside of the French sphere by war's end.



Joséphine, who still rules the Empire to this day, saw a number of reforms under her reign to Imperial society, specifically women's suffrage shortly after gaining power, and most recently the newest series of amendments to the French Constitution Ending the role of the French Monarchy as the supreme authority of government, and handing most of its legislative and administrative powers to the President of the National Assembly.



As of 1953 France now faces a growing uneasiness with their longtime ally Rhineland, which has formed the Council of Germania from within the European Economic and Defense Community (formed in 1929). Hoping to finally realize the dream of a United Germania, France could be facing the birth of a new superpower in Europe to challenge the Hegemonic rule of the Bonaparte Dynasty.