The figures below come from INSEE and from the Pensions Advisory Council. The digital franc has its own paper: it is the currency of this economy, not a side chapter.
- 57.3%
- of GDP in public spending, 2025
- 5.1%
- deficit, €152.5 billion
- 115.7%
- public debt
- €422bn
- in pensions, 14.1% of GDP
INSEE, general-government national accounts, August 2026: 2025 spending, deficit and debt, provisional. Pensions: Conseil d'orientation des retraites, June 2026.
The levy
Everything is taxed, several times, and still one borrows.
In 2025 public spending was 57.3% of gross domestic product. The deficit stood at €152.5 billion, or 5.1% of GDP, after 5.8% in 2024. Maastricht debt reached 115.7% of GDP. The Republic does not have a yield problem. It has a size problem.
The Empire forbids the deficit. The tax is single: 30% on total labour cost, for five years, then one point less each year. At ten years the rate is 25%. The long aim is about 12%. There is no more CSG, CRDS, stacked income tax, niche or form. VAT is 5% on water, food and energy, and 20% on the rest. There is no third tax.
Corporation tax is abolished. Inheritance is at 0%. A fortune already taxed in life is not taxed a second time at death. Dividends, wages and realised gains carry the same rate, withheld at source, when the money enters a pocket. Before that, one produces.
The outlay
Zero subsidy. The pension ceases to be a pyramid.
Every subsidy is abolished on the day of the Empire: firms, associations, the press, cinema, sport, unions, NGOs. The High Commission for Strategy estimated, in 2025, aid to firms at €112 billion in 2023, outside general contribution relief. Only farmers keep a tapering support, for as long as it takes to leave the CAP, about €9.3 billion a year in the 2025 French budget. Four years after the exit, there is no more cheque.
According to the Pensions Advisory Council, in June 2026, pensions cost €422 billion. There remain 1.8 contributors per pensioner. Pensions already in payment are paid: we do not rob those who have already contributed. Every new contribution feeds a personal account, the property of the insured, and heritable. Charles Gave*, in June 2026: nobody has ever been able to guarantee anyone a certain income in an uncertain world.
Charles Prats* conducts the audit of every euro before anyone speaks of a rate. False numbers, paper centenarians, benefits paid off the soil: the tap is shut, and we prosecute. Benefits cease to be an income. They have a duration, a counterpart, and an exit into private work.
The currency
The franc is not an annex. It is the unit.
Leaving the euro is the condition of the rest. The digital franc is a state cryptocurrency, on full reserves. Banks lend real savings. They no longer create money, and they are forbidden to buy the Empire's debt. Fisher* and Friedman* described that split. Anonymity is the default. A control exists only on a judicial warrant.
Staking is capped at 200,000 francs per citizen, at 2% a year. Foreigners may hold the currency. They do not receive the seigniorage. The franc paper describes the technique, the banks and the four months of dual circulation. This page says only where the currency sits: it serves thrift and work, and it does not serve to finance a forbidden deficit.
Fuel carries only VAT at 5%. The aimed price is €0.60 to €0.70 a litre. The motorway is nationalised, the toll goes, the disc is €200. Energy is nuclear first. When the national tax falls under 20%, the regions may levy up to 8%. The French then vote with their feet.
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Your purchasing power
A teaching estimate. Total labour cost is twice take-home pay. The Republic: about 50 % kept after charges and tax. The Empire: a single 30 % at source.
Monthly take-home
Republic
2 250 €
Monthly take-home
Empire · year 1
3 150 €
Monthly take-home
Empire · year 10
3 375 €
Monthly take-home
12 % aim
3 960 €
Fuel / year
Republic
3 367 €
Fuel / year
Empire €0.65
1 183 €
Roads / year
Present tolls / year
900 €
Roads / year
Disc
200 €
Estimated yearly gain
13 684 €
The Empire's economy is not a plan. It is a short rule: one tax, no deficit, no subsidy, a currency that is not diluted.