If any Internationale state should be a one-party regime, it should be France.
I maintain that France should start as a Nazbol regime, and that Britain should be the more functional democracy. I DO think that they should include big segments of socdem, soclib, and pataut support in the starting wheel, with a mechanic where Mosley "converts" the right-wing vote to totalist support with naked English nationalism to reinforce the "red fascist" nature of his ideology and regime, and I wouldn't necessarily be opposed to a "reformist" socdem option.
I would definitely focus more on the TUC Congress, with each result having different gameplay options and being based on a larger series of events and decision trees. For example:
- Mosley focuses on state transformation, buildup for war, and making himself Eternal Leader.
- Horner/orthodox syndie option focuses on exporting the revolution by supporting socialism abroad and suborning Germany's world system.
- Mann/the compromise syndie option focuses on balancing domestic political interests (this is basically a hard-mode option there for flavor and fun).
- Kenney/the pacifist syndie option focuses on delaying WK2, strengthening Internationale collaboration, and avoiding war without caving to threats.
- y Glais/the radsoc option focuses on more esoteric anarchist theory, keeping the regionalism but focusing on a cultural revival program that strengthens each constituent of the Union with national spirits even as it decentralizes.
- A theoretical socdem option would try to offer concessions to a democratic and left-leaning Canada to end the stupid pissing match and allow exiles who aren't wanted for any crimes to come back peacefully.
Meanwhile France gameplay would be basically about Faure and Makhno leading anarchist resistance to the increasingly totalitarian and somewhere-between-Stalin-and-Strasser regime of the Sorellians, culminating in a power struggle late in 1936 that basically prevents France from jumping Germany while its puppets are all revolting and its economy is fucked. Makhno and Faure would democratize the nation and focus on building a defensive-minded military, while the nazbols would focus on purging opposition and building an all offense military to hit Germany as hard as possible.
Either way, I'm not fond of this change. The UoB is one bit of legacy lore that I think should be kept and worked with, rather than discarded like the old China lore (which tbh needed to go and we're better without because new China rocks).