German Empire

The German Empire or the Imperial State of Germany, also referred to as Imperial Germany, is a nation-state along with its colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories. It existed from the unification of Germany of 1871 and into the New Age, which saw the establishment of German protectorates and colonies in Southeast Asia, especially Indochina and the Philippines.
It was founded on 1 January 1871, five years after the Sundering, the collapse of the world order, that saw the appearance of supernatural and otherworldly creatures, magicians and wizards, and magic which brought most of the world in anarchy, when the south German states, except for Austria, joined the North German Confederation and the new constitution came into force, changing the name of the federal state to the German Empire and introducing the title of German Emperor for Wilhelm I, King of Prussia from the House of Hohenzollern. Berlin remained its capital, and Bismarck, Minister-President of Prussia, became Chancellor, the first head of government. During these events, the Prussian-led North German Confederation led a war against the Second French Empire, hordes of monsters, and rogues that threatened to bring chaos to the Germans.
As a result of the collapse of the world order the German Empire became involved in colonialism, though it saw limited involvement in the scramble for Africa; though it does establish ties with the African states. Despite this, it was able to establish a foothold in the Philippines on 1898, which it took over after the Spanish Empire is weakened internally and militarily there, and several Pacific islands. After the end of the Great War in 1917 which saw France and Italy defeated (with the latter splitting into the Duchy of Romagna and the Republic of Venezia) and the Russian Empire collapsing under a revolution and civil war (with the Romanovs and Russian nobles given political asylum in Berlin and Admiral Aleksandra Kolchaka and her forces and government moved to Flensburg), the German Empire took over Malaya, Indochina, Sarawak, New Guinea, Hainan, Weihaiwei and the Pacific Islands. Although its rule is shaken by the occasional raids by the otherworldly creatures, it maintained control over its possessions and, as a result, helped spread prosperity for the next two years.
The two-year golden age ended when Borealis Norsoutha—a 20-uear-old Japanese-Filipino-American with German, British and Spanish ancestry with branch families (or stem families) in the United States, Philippines and Great Britain, serving in the Imperial German Navy as a Konteradmiral, one of the brightest, younger/youngest, and brilliant few prodigies—was imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit and escaped after an attack by the otherworldly monsters on Kiel for Hamburg with help from his old mentor and his fellow officers and soldiers; his escape on board a ship destined for the United States (which collapsed into five states: the United States to the east, the Republic of Texas to the south, the First Nations to the north, the California Republic to the west, and the Free West in the middle) was stopped after a sea serpent under Sir Francis Drake unknowingly assailed the ship and was attacked in turn by a detachment of the Imperial Germany Navy's High Seas Fleet and French Royal Navy, leading to the sea serpent rocking the ship that causes Borealis to be thrown into a lifeboat, which was then detached from its moorings and headed either for the southern coast of England; this led to Borealis' memories being warped/altered and the fateful encounter between him and King Arthur—the current ruler of the Kingdom of Logres (which was formed after the 1866 flight of the British government, monarchy, military and several British civilians and families for Canada in 1868), daughter of the Usurper Uther Pendragon, King of the Britons and Defeater of the Saxons—who became involved in the hunt for the Black Crown and her wounding of Borealis, to whom she grew to love.
The German Empire saw the deployment of the 27th Corps, under the direct command of Generaloberst Salta Norsoutha, the half-brother of Konteradmiral Borealis, a veteran comamnder and Hero of the Three-Month War and the Hero of Byzantium, to the British Isles; the expedition was to find Borealis, whether dead or alive, and return him to Germany to acquit him. Though they were unable to return to Germany with Borealis, who grew to hate his own families and the state for wronging him but grew to love King Arthur, Generaloberst Salta and the 27th Corps helped the two and the Knights of the Round Table find Merlin and the legendary sword Excalibur and getting involved with fighting otherworldly creatures and enemy groups and then in the Second English Civil War, the latter of which shakened the German Empire and its resolve, which led to it passing several reforms and turning itself from an imperial overlord into a protector of humanity.
The German Empire has the largest military, with troops deployed in the Byzantine Empire, Kingdom of Kurdistan, Ukraine, the United Baltic Duchy, Ptolemaic Egypt, German East Asia, and the Philippines; the largest German overseas military formation is the 15th Army in the Kingdom of Logres.