France is a romantic and carefree character and kind of a pervert. In the series, he is shown to have a long-held rivalry with Britain. Parodying the cliché of the romantic French, France frequently makes romantic passes at many characters, including England. France explains away his long history of military defeats by attributing them to a joke from God. He regards himself as the eldest brother among the European nations and is actually referred to as such by some of them, though he calls Spain his elder brother in turn. However, he gets very upset when another nation refers to him as an 'old man', as he claims he's still young. When he