I believe that Nexon is purposefully trying to entertain the majority of their paying customers by cruelly mistreating one nation.
They assumed the French would be a good target for this heinous ridicule because they thought that Frenchies, despite their renowned wine, cheese, maids, fries and poodles, are the most annoying nation and would also be unlikely to organize a large scale revolt in response.
Clearly, this idea arose from the same cesspool of foolishness that led to the re-tooling of the alliance search algorithm.....