France is a good example of how a well run Republic can work
France, a Socialist state, with greater class-divisions, more jobs for the boys, and politically-induced financial mire than even the Scots can manage. Unless you've been to a Polytechnique you don't get above HEO in the Civil Service, or any serious senior job in the former or current nationalised industries.
It's not all topless girls at St Tropez you know
