Regarding France

I don't mind if no-one uses my ideas, as long as I can use them I'm happy. What I'm hoping to achieve with France is a place that, within reason, anything goes, and your wildest ideas for characters seem plausible. Alright, here's what I've got so far:

During the 2020's, France finds an oil reserve somewhere in France (I haven't thought about where yet). This is before the fuel crisis, but fuel is starting to run out, and the prices for oil are high. This causes France's economy to boom, and it to become a major economic powerhouse of the world for around 50 years. People start spending money lavishly on things they don't even need, such as pets (creatures which later mutate to form the wildlife of France) and new technology. The French government realise this, and start to tax products from outside of France more heavily, meaning that people spend money on French goods, boosting the economy further. Overall, the Government handled the economic boom very well, and by around 2050, when the oil supply had run out, France was still one of the strongest and fastest growing economies in the world. France remained like this for around 10 years, but in 2061, the government decided that they should follow suit with America and build their own vaults. These fallout shelters, called "Chambres", were not really designed to purely survive the war, they were enormous arks, designed with complete luxury in mind, and built under and around France's most famous monuments and places such as the Eiffel Tower. These Chambres were enormous, and had the minimum capacity of 1000 people, but the largest ones in cities like Paris could house up to 5000. The French government were complacent, and never really believed that the resource war would never actually involve a nuclear exchange, but built these enormous Chambres merely as a display of wealth to the rest of the world. France was fairly safe if a war came, as there were so many Chambres and they housed so many people that if the world ever came to war, a decent amount of the French population would survive. However, in 2075, the first case of what became known as "French Plague" was reported, and the victim, a young womaniser from Lyon, died within a week of the reporting. The disease spread very slowly at first, and there was only two more infections in the following month, but the infection rate began to climb. In the next week there were three more infections, the week after that there were seven, the week after that, 18. By early 2077 it was a full-blown epidemic. France shut off its borders to stop the disease from spreading, and there were only a few reported cases outside of France that were dealt with quickly due to the infectious nature of the disease. It turns out that the disease is transmitted sexually (although it can also be transmitted through exchange of blood), and is incredibly infectious, but symptoms of the disease are not spotted before it is too late. It hopped over from cattle, to whom it is not a deadly disease, just a mild annoyance. Unfortunately, though, there was not enough time to get a research program up and running, as by the time the funding had been acquired, it was October, and the war was about to begin. Both the healthy and sick were herded into the Chambres, where they awaited the bombs to fall.
The bombs certainly did fall. As one of the world's biggest economies, France was hit hard. The bombs weren't the Chambre resident's biggest fears though, their fear was French Plague. With around 30% of the population infected, the disease spread like wildfire in the Chambres, and the enormous arks became luxurious slaughterhouses. It seemed that 3-4 people out of ten were resistant to the disease and didn't get infected. These people were given the dirty jobs, such as cleaning up after the infected, executing those who wanted a quick and painless death, and disposing of the bodies. There were no furnaces in the majority of the vaults, and the bodies were just piled up in a designated room, making the vaults smell purely of death. Strangely, though, the offspring of those who are resistant to the disease are not necessarily resistant to the disease. To combat the disease, people began to breed, trying to have as many children as possible at an early an age as possible. Ironically, though, in doing this people were helping the disease to spread even faster. By the time those who were born outside of the vault had died, it was generally known that if you had not got the disease by the age of 15, you were resistant. However, because of the sheer amount of death and suffering that the Chambre dwellers had to go through, the majority of them became slightly mad, but it was on a spectrum, with some people seemingly unaffected by it, to people being downright insane. French people are also incredibly resistant now, as it is generally those who are the most disease resistant that are resistant to French Plague. As soon as it was safe (safe in its broadest terms) to leave the Chambres, people did to escape the torture of living amongst all the dead and dying. However, some Chambres were badly placed and the monuments they were under collapsed on top of them, like the Chambre under the Eiffel Tower, which collapsed from the bombs. The people in the Chambre d'Eiffel can't escape and are trapped in their Chambre waiting for their resources to run out.
How things are now:
The French are mad. They are not allowed into the countries they border because the other countries are afraid of infection, although there are ways to get out of France. France has no government and few factions, most people live independently. Towns have sprung up around the Chambres, using the resources from them to construct the towns. France has a very low population, even for a nuclear wasteland, and it is not growing quickly. It is not uncommon for a woman to have ten children before she is 40, and even then only around three will survive. French people will more or less never kill other French people, as they know the pain and suffering they have gone through to survive. All in all, France is not a very nice place to live anymore, but the French love it because they are mad.

So there are my ideas. Feel free to add your own, pick holes and criticize to your heart's content!