German State

### Government type

Constitutional monarchy under a unitary authoritarian personalist dictatorship (1941 - 1942)Federal parliamentary semi-constitutional monarchy (1942 - present)

### Motto

Ordnung, Ehre, Frieden (Order, Honour, Peace)

The **German State** (German: *Deutscher Staat*) is the German nation of the Continent formed after the defeat of the Fourth Reich, the Black Order and the establishment of a state under the German Empire.

When the foundations of the German State was laid, Werner von Goldberg made a bold move to assert himself as the permanent chancellor of the German State, citing that there was no such need to establish a fully democratic state in a world untouched by revolution, though didn't persecute other parties, with Prince Karl Franz of Prussia established as King of the Germans. The sole party that ruled the German State was Werner's established German Popular Party, which is based on the principles of liberal-conservatism, nationalism and monarchism of the majority of German citizens.

However, the German Empire started to exile dissidents within the empire through the Gate as a way to consolidate control, get rid of them entirely or to make room for more industry. These included members of political parties from non-right-wing fronts such as the Social Democratic Party of Germany and the Communist Party of Germany, prisoners from all parts of Germany, those who seeked a new life in a foreign land, foreigners living in their borders and some local Jewish populations in Germany. This forced Werner to reach a comprimise and decide to put in a period of democratization on public demand or based upon the core principles of the Weimar Republic in exchange the Communist Party transitions to the SDP party. Those who refused were given free passage to live in neighbouring countries.

Though the German State was still under the Kaiser and was technically a German subject, opinion from the German Empire greatly approved of a nation that would extend Germany's influence and display the might of Germany with its military precense.

## Overview

### Jurisdiction

After the Treaty of Peace, the German State was granted a wide variety of territory, resembling Western Germany, by the Council of the Round Table after it became appearent that Werner's army was strong enough to take down all nations if attacked, that had German citizens or pro-German citizens. The Germans had some intentions of annexing a large swath of the western regions and replacing that region's inhabitants with mainly German settlers prior to Fourth Reich but quickly abandoned these persuits when relations with the people of the Continent was becoming strained.

German law applied to every region under their control. When World War 2 was already underway back on the German's side of the Gate, the German State sent a never-ending supply of resources to support the war rather than sending conscripts and workers.

### Legitimacy

Many of the Council of Allied Nations were skeptical of the Germans having legitimacy over a large portion of land never claimed by them in the first place, which has long since been regions of the Arthurian Empire. Many demanded they only be granted the Sapphire region around the Sapphire River as punishment for past offenses, but many others would not risk a war with the Germans after witnessing what the men of the Fourth Reich could do. Empress Guinevere was initially hessitant to deal with the Germans after the destruction of Camelot but trusted Werner enough to recognize the new German State. The German Reichstag and Bundesrat legitimised Werner's regime as a reward for erradicating the last of the Nazis.

## Ideology

The Werner regime sought a liberal-conservative, nationalist state guided by a one-party dictatorship. It's original core of its ideology was to establish their own Germany untouched by revolutionaries, supported by reactionaries to moderate liberal modernizers.

The most controversial aspect of the regime was to reject all advanced technology from post-German-Civil-War, after finding out about the truth behind the Nazi technology, and started sending back technology stockpiles while only recieving technology that was completely outdated. This belief was only fueled after the massive destruction of the landscapes caused by German war machines under Nazi control. After this, the German State established a program that brought conservative scientists and engineers over to come up with theories and technology that didn't resemble Nazi technology.

## Armed forces

After the dissolution of the Fourth Reich, the Reichswehr (figuratively; Defence of the realm) was created to be the main defence force of the German State. The German Empire limited the size of the Reichswehr to 100,000 soldiers. The main advantage of this limitation, however, was that the Reichswehr could afford to pick the best recruits for service. Despite this, the Reichswehr found a loophole in the organisation by continuing the existance of the Freikorps and the Schutzmannschaft into paramilitary organisations and civil service respectively.

## Economy

The war against the Fourth Reich left devestation. Infrastructure had been damaged, workers killed and daily business severely hampered. Werner initially pursued a policy of autarky, but had no choice but to recruit engineers from Germany to replace those killed during the war. The country implemented several development policies and growth in order to further grow the economy. To make up of many unused land in the German State's borders, immigrants and refugees were allowed to cultivate the land and produce their own farms almost independently.

Because of the many mines, oil rigs and farms that were stationed all around the German landscape, with the magic of the Continent constantly replenishing it, the economy quickly grew until it managed to gain self-sufficiency in only a few years. Many people from outside the German State benefitted greatly off the increased German precense and wealth unmatched by no one.

To further increase their precense of the German State, the State pushed the gold standard, where 2790 marks equal to 1 kilogram of pure gold, in order to solve the problem of the Continent's original gold, silver and copper economic system being constantly undermined by the vast sum of wealth each German possesses, including the low-ranking privates of the Reichswehr, which led to inflation in many nations outside the State. Most nations outside refused to adopt the German goldmark but acknowledged that inflation will keep increasing to the point the gold to lose its value overtime to resemble the goldmark.