France #1 for population?

Day 632, 16:00 Published in USA USA by RomanEmpire

France currently has just over 19000 citizens, the largest population of any country in the eWorld. This is about a 150% increase in about three days,which was 8000 or so citizens. Can someone explain exactly what is going on here? Are there people in Paris walking up to random people in the streets and telling them to start playing eRepublik? Maybe taking out ads in local TV stations about how France can for once in the last 200 years win a war, even if it is only in a game? The only other explanation is that eFrance is cheating big time, which I can't see how they can do unless they are making multiple accounts. This seems kinda fishy, and I would like to know how they are doing it. And if its legal, I want the eUS government to start taking some notes 🙂