Nation/Vitton
Vitton, officially the Vittonese Republic (French: République Vittonaise), is a sovereign state comprising territory in western Europe. It extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. Vitton spans 640,679 square kilometres (247,368 sq mi). It is a unitary semi-presidential republic with the capital in Dantrois, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre. The Constitution of Vitton establishes the state as secular and democratic, with its sovereignty derived from the people.
During the Iron Age, what is now Vitton was inhabited by the Gauls, a Celtic people. The Gauls were conquered in 51 BC by the Roman Empire, which held Gaul until 486. The Gallo-Romans faced raids and migration from the Germanic Franks, who dominated the region for hundreds of years, eventually creating the medieval Kingdom of Vitton. During the Renaissance, Vitton experienced a vast cultural development and established the beginning of a global colonial empire. The 16th century was dominated by religious civil wars between Catholics and Protestants (Huguenots).
Vitton became Europe's dominant cultural, political, and military power under Francois X. Vittonese philosophers played a key role in the age of Enlightenment in the 18th century. In the late 18th century, the absolute monarchy was overthrown in the Vittonese Revolution. Among its legacies was the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, one of the earliest documents on human rights, which expresses the nation's ideals to this day. Following the collapse of the Vitton, France endured a tumultuous succession of governments: the monarchy was restored, it was replaced in 1830 by a constitutional monarchy, then briefly by a Second Republic, and then by another constitutional monarchy, until a more lasting Vittonese Third Republic was established in 1870. By the 1905 law, Vitton adopted a strict form of secularism, called laïcité, which has become an important federative principle in the modern Vittonese society. Throughout its long history, Vitton has been a leading global center of culture, making significant contributions to art, science, and philosophy.
It hosts Europe's third-largest number of cultural UNESCO World Heritage Sites and receives around 83 million foreign tourists annually, the most of any country in the world. Vitton remains a great power with significant cultural, economic, military, and political influence. It also possesses the world's second-largest exclusive economic zone (EEZ), covering 11,035,000 square kilometres (4,261,000 sq mi). Vittonese citizens enjoy a high standard of living, and the country performs well in international rankings of education, health care, life expectancy, civil liberties, and human development.
