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France

#6 of 18 by healthy life years

Current employee: Sรฉbastien Lecornu

Official government site โ†—
โš”๏ธ Military : ๐Ÿงช Trials Ratio
595.7:1

For every $1 spent finding out which medicines work, France spends $596 on military.

๐ŸŽฎ Game Metrics

โค๏ธ Healthy Life Years (HALE)
72.1
Global avg: ยท Target:
Needs +12.9 years to hit treaty target
๐Ÿ’ฐ GDP Per Capita
$55.5K
Median income: $20.5K
World Bank PPP 2023

๐Ÿ’ฃ Military vs ๐Ÿงช Medicine

๐Ÿ’ฃ Military Spending$56B/yr
๐Ÿงช Clinical Trials$94M/yr

Scaled to the same axis as military โ€” the bar is 0.17% of military spending

๐Ÿงฌ Total Medical Research$1B/yr
๐Ÿฅ Health Spending / Capita$5.5K

๐Ÿ“Š Spending Profile

๐Ÿ’ฃ
Military Spending/yr
$56B
2.1% of GDP
SIPRI 2024 โ†—
๐Ÿฅ
Health Spending/capita
$5.5K
OECD 2023
โณ
Life Expectancy
82.3 yrs
World Bank 2023
โš–๏ธ
Military : Trials Ratio
596:1
Weapons per $1 of government clinical trials
๐Ÿ”ฌ
Military : Research Ratio
40.0:1
Weapons per $1 of total government medical research
๐Ÿงฌ
Gov Medical Research/yr
$1B
Total research budget (basic science + overhead + admin)
INSERM budget EUR 1.225B (2025) + ANR health portion โ†—
๐Ÿงช
Gov Clinical Trials/yr
$94M
Actual interventional trials, not total research overhead
Estimated: ~6.7% of $1.4B INSERM+ANR total medical research โ†—
๐Ÿ”ซ
Arms Exports/yr
$5B
SIPRI Arms Transfers 2023 โ†—
๐Ÿ’ณ
Debt
112% of GDP
IMF 2024

๐Ÿ’€ Body Count

๐Ÿ’€
Body Count
1,500,000
1945โ€“2025
Summed from 1 sourced government death ledger entry โ†—
โ˜ข๏ธ
Nuclear Warheads
290
FAS Nuclear Notebook 2024 โ†—
๐Ÿชฆ
Civilian Deaths
800,000
Algeria war civilian estimates
๐Ÿ’ฅ
Countries Bombed
12
French MoD, conflict databases

๐Ÿ’ฅ Countries Bombed

Indochina/Vietnam, Algeria, Suez/Egypt, Cameroon, Mali, Libya, Syria, Central African Republic, Ivory Coast, Chad, Comoros, Rwanda

๐Ÿ“œ Death Ledger

Sourced regime and conflict entries summed into the body-count total.

Postwar colonial and expeditionary killings
Existing Optimitron grouped estimate spanning Indochina, Algeria, Madagascar, and other postwar operations.
Period
1945โ€“2025
Deaths
1,500,000
legacy-composite

โš–๏ธ Justice & Domestic

๐Ÿ”ช
Homicide Rate /100K
1.3
UNODC 2022
โ›“๏ธ
Incarceration /100K
93
World Prison Brief 2024 โ†—

๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ France Politician Alignment

Every politician's votes scored against what citizens actually want via pairwise comparison. The gap between what they vote for and what you'd vote for, expressed as a single number.

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๐ŸŽฏ Fix France's Score

France spends $56B/yr on military and $94M/yr testing which medicines work. The 1% Treaty redirects 1% of the first number to the second. The deposit funds the campaign to make it happen.

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