TLIAD: Union, Travail, Justice

It's a designation used internally by French Polynesia IOTL: pays d'outre-mer au sein de la République. The territory's organic law uses this term, but it isn't recognized under the French constitution: the constitutional court has essentially said that French Polynesia can call itself anything it wants, but its legal status is an overseas collectivity.

The status of Gabon ITTL is basically the same.

Thank you. I suspected there was an OTL example of some sort. 'Pays' is a very interesting word to use, as it has lots of plausible deniability. Oh, we just mean 'land, territory' to someone from the Metropole, but rather more than that to a fellow inhabitant.
 
I'd just like to announce that, through the good offices of the Sea Lion Press team, Union, Travail, Justice is now available in ebook form with corrected typos and a never-before-published afterword. Thanks to Meadow and Lord Roem for deciding that UTJ was worthy of publication and for making it happen.

The original timeline, typos and all, will continue to be available here; however, if you'd like to buy the cow even though you can get the milk for free (or if you think an 8000-word alternate history story about Gabon would make the perfect gift for that special someone), by all means click the image below. I hope you enjoy it.

 
Another shameless solicitation: Union, Travail, Justice is listed on Amazon US and Amazon UK, and if anyone who's read and enjoyed the story here feels like reviewing it and raising its profile, I'd be grateful. Feel free to rubbish me for the present-tense magazine journalism style: I'm not entirely sure that works myself.
 
Another shameless solicitation: Union, Travail, Justice is listed on Amazon US and Amazon UK, and if anyone who's read and enjoyed the story here feels like reviewing it and raising its profile, I'd be grateful. Feel free to rubbish me for the present-tense magazine journalism style: I'm not entirely sure that works myself.

As a fan of that style in general and big fan of UTJ specifically, I have no plans to rubbish you for it - and would indeed assure you that 'it works'. :)
 
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