Dunsteen

**Dunsteen**, or officially the **Republic of Dunsteen** (French: **République de Dunsteen**, German: **Republik Dunsteen**) is a nation in western Europe stretching from the river Oder in the east to the Pyrenees in the west, and has coastlines on the Baltic, North and Mediterranean seas. With an area of 1,000,823 square kilometres, Dunsteen is the largest state in Europe, and boarders Austria, Isgardia, Poland, Spain and Switzerland. It also has a boarder with the breakaway state of Morra, which Dunsteen formally laid claim to until the Kiev Accords of 2031.

Founded in 1572, the Kingdom of Dunsteen established the first modern Germanic state in defence against the Kingdom of France, and gradually began to expand outwards into lands claimed by the French Kingdom and the various Isgardian states; following death of King Louis XIV in 1715, Dunsteen invaded the French Kingdom and was able to subjugate the divided nation by 1720 after a prolonged war. Though initially administered as a colony of the main state, the French regions of Dunsteen were granted equal status to the Germanic provinces after the First Dunsteen Civil War and the deposition of the monarchy in 1857.

Under the following autocratic military dictatorship, the nation became more culturally unified although international rivalry with the British Empire and Imperial Republic of Libirachi for dominance in the world resulted in the deposition of the military regime in 1905 and the installation of a presidential democracy; despite a brief relapse into dictatorship following a coup in 1921, the Republic of Dunsteen has existed consistently since 1905.

By the 21st century, the nation was regarded as a declining power as the United States, Libirachi Empire and Bovido Has had all surpassed the former great powers of western Europe, and in 2022 the Libirachi Civil War spilled over into Dunsteen as the Confederacy of Independent Nations supported the formation of the Transitional State of Dunsteen, which in turn would become the Corporate Republic of Dunsteen in 2024 and the Republic of Morra in 2029. Having lost a core economic centre of the nation, Dunsteen began to spiral into political crisis and early elections saw the embattled president Emanuel Macron voted out of office - under the leadership of his successor Katharina Müller, Dunsteen began to move closer into the Libirachi sphere of influence in order to regain the economic capacities that the nation had lost, with Dunsteen formally renouncing it's claims to the Dutch regions in the Kiev Accords in exchange for a generous trade agreement with the Libirachi Empire. As a key leader of the Tri-Nation Pact, Dunsteen was regarded by many as a heavily Libirachi influenced nation by the early 2030s, and participated extensively in the N20 movement too; however, by 2037 Dunsteen had fallen into the United States' sphere of influence through it's membership of NATO and other US led organisations.

## Name

Taking its name from the founding house and its first King, the Kingdom of Dunsteen was established by King Wilhelm Dunsteen I of Dunsteen house, and for the first 180 years of its existence, the nation was ruled over by his descendants, until Haasburg House took power in 1752 with the death of Ferdinand Dunsteen.

## History

### Unity

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Uniting the ancient houses of the nomadic German hordes in 1572, King Wilhelm Dunsteen I of Dunsteen house sought a union to repel invaders from the Kingdom of France which had been attacking the boarders of several noble houses over the past decade. Leading an army to repel the forces, King Wilhelm I established the first Germanic nation which represented the interests of all ancient houses. After 20 years on the throne, Wilhelm died in his sleep, allowing his son to take the throne.

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Taking over from his father in 1593, King Wilhelm Dunsteen II began expanding the boarders of the new nation of Dunsteen, following the example of his father and leading charges into the Kingdoms of France and Isgardia. As the Germanic people slowly became accustomed to the new regime, the new king began leading the nation into re-distributing the power of the nobility to the people in the earliest recorded attempt at creating a socialist society. Whilst rampant purges of the upper classes caused chaos, Wilhelm's son, Prince Maximilian Dunsteen, seized power in the nation, ordering the execution of his father and crowning himself the new monarch.

### Division

Having taken power from his father in 1637, King Maximilian ruled over Dunsteen with a calm hand, although the chaos and dissent sowed by his father continued to cause problems for the flailing monarch, leaving several large swaths of land to be colonised by the Kingdom of France. With impending financial ruin, King Maximilian died from a stroke after only four years on the throne in 1641.

As the youngest son of King Wilhelm I, Rudolf Dunsteen sized the throne of the European nation following the death of his nephew in 1641. Realising the mess created by his older brother, Rudolf embarked on a mission to restore the nation to its former glory. Despite such campaigns, the rival Kingdom of Isgardia managed to take back control of the southern tip of the nation, and an assassination attempt by house Hasburg left him virtually brain dead, allowing his son to take the throne

### Restoration

After sustaining a brain clot in 1657, King Rudolf was replaced by his son, Mathias Dunsteen, who continued to embark upon futile hopes of reuniting the land originally held by the nation of Dunsteen. As nomadic hoards from the Libirachi Empire began to topple neighbouring regimes in the 1670s, King Mathias was able to bring the waring fractions together to defeat a colonial army, rappelling the Libirachi forces back into Asia, although he sustained a chest wound which grew infected and ultimately killed him in 1681.

As the last descendant of King Wilhelm I, Ferdinand Dunsteen took the throne to his great-great-grandfather's nation in 1681 and used the reign of his father to build on the cooperation of the noble houses and for the first time built a united army, composed from all regions of the kingdom. As the Kingdom of France stumbled into chaos with the death of King Louis XIV in 1715, Ferdinand took the opportunity and invaded the nation using his his new army, crippling the French forces and taking hold of the nation by 1720 after a prolonged war. Having added new land to the empire for the first time in over a hundred years, Ferdinand became a key factor in the official re-unification of Dunsteen, in which the nobility renounced much of their family power in exchange for land and influence. With his death in 1752, Ferdinand became the last member of the Dunsteen family to hold the throne of the nation.

### House of Hasburg

With the death King Ferdinand Dunsteen in 1752, the nation was left without a suitable member or Dusteen house to lead them, thus the royal court selected Francis Hasburg to become King Francis I of Dunsteen. Leading the army of Dunsteen into the Kingdom of Belgum in 1764, King Francis expanded the nation further, using the Flemish Trade Corporation to blockade the ports until the Flemish king surrendered. After 40 years on the throne, King Francis died in 1792, giving way to his son, Joseph.

Following his father's death in 1792, King Joseph Hasburg took control of the nation, expanding the naval capacity of the nation and embarking on territorial crusades across Africa, Europe and the Americas using the newfound naval might to vastly grow the overseas empire and rivalling only the British and Libirachi Empires in might and size. With his death in 1830, the crown transferred to his son, Francis Hasburg II.

Taking the throne from his father in 1830, King Francis II led the nation of Dunsteen whilst the nation of Belgium was slowly integrated into the growing empire. As Dunsteen entered a trade war with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Francis revitalised the navy and armed forces to wage war, but died from a heart attack in 1836 before he could mobilise his forces against the British Empire

With his father's death in 1836, Leopold Hasburg ascended to the throne of Dunsteen as King Leopold, and began rapidly consolidating power away from the generals and dukes who had been decentralising power since House Hasburg took power in 1752, upending the social order akin to Wilhelm II's power grab in the 1630s. As the nobility resisted the changes, an uprising began and King Leopold was deposed in 1857 by Archduke Johaan von Ostreg.

### Revolution

As a key member of the von Ostreg family, Archduke Johaan votn Ostreg rallied the nobility behind him to oppose the sweeping reforms planned by King Leopold in 1850, beginning his uprising in 1853 and leading the nobility and their private armies into war with the monarch's personal forces. As clashes across the country began to weaken the King's hold on power, von Ostreg deposed the monarch in 1857 and pronounced the former kingdom as the Republic of Dunsteen with himself as the inaugural president. Enacting marshal law upon the nation, von Ostreg revoked all powers away from the monarchy and all associated titles, allowing him to rule as an unrivalled dictator. Suffering from tuberculosis in the late 1870s, President Johan von Ostreg died in June 1879, passing his presidency onto his brother, the military general Frederic von Ostreg, who had led the Dunsteen revolutionary forces in combat during the civil war.

Taking power upon his brother's death in 1879, General Frederic von Ostreg was a revolutionary warrior who led the charge against the weak and inefficient leadership of King Leopold. As a military leader rather than a civilian leader, the nation of Dunsteen remained under marshal law as the military took over all great offices of state. Raising taxation and spending more and more public money on re-vitalising the decades old military services, von Ostreg slowly became more and more unpopular with both the public and the military high command as they began to resent his brutal dictatorship. Rising up to lead the army against their president in 1892, General Franz Joseph led the Dunsteen Protectorate into battle against the von Ostreg forces in a bloody civil war which lasted eleven years, until the sacking of Berlin in 1903, in which the cornered government surrendered to Joseph's forces and their president was executed for treason against the Republic of Dunsteen the same year.

Having taken power from General von Ostreg in 1903, General Franz Joseph quickly set about re-establishing the presidency as principal democratic mechanism, before resigning in 1905 to allow for free elections to be held (although only land owning men were able to vote). Taking up the mantle as the head of the Dunsteen armed forces under new President Friedrich Ebert, leader of the National Party, General Joseph continued to act as an important member within the new government. After President Luther was re-elected in 1920, Joseph led a coup to overthrow his government, placing himself as president once more and making him the only person to be president of Dunsteen for two non-consecutive terms, although he was the third unelected person to take power.

### Democratisation

With the resignation of General Franz Joseph from the presidency in 1905, Friedrich Ebert was elected as the first democratically selected President of the Republic of Dunsteen after the 1905 Dunsteen Presidential Election. As the leader of the National Party, Ebert was able to radically reform the constitution to allow for presidential term limits (5 years) and the requirement to have an election at the end of each term, although no limits were placed upon the amount of terms that one person could have. Re-elected in 1910, President Ebert continued to implement necessary legislation to set up Dunsteen as a legitimate democracy, including extending the right to vote to all men over the age of 21 in 1913. As the 1915 election neared, Ebert took a decision not to stand again for another term and allowed prime minister Hans Luther to take the leadership of the party and run for a presidential term in 1915. Despite withdrawing from front line politics, Friedrich Ebert continued to be a political heavyweight, and served as an adviser to the Luther government.

Taking over the reigns of the national party in 1915, former Prime Minister Hans Luther was elected as the second president of Dunsteen the same year and followed his predecessor's groundwork in creating a democracy from the crumbled dictatorship of the von Ostreg brothers, establishing constitutional framework to prevent a single person taking authoritarian control over the nation. As a staunch believer in international politics, President Luther introduced Dunsteen into the League of Nations in 1919, partly as an election stunt, and was re-elected as President in 1920. Despite widening the amount of people who could vote from men over 21 to men over 18 and landowning women over 30, Luther's majority in congress was diminished and in August 1921, a coup led by General Franz Joseph overthrew the Luther regime and executed the president as a punishment for false allegations. With Joseph's power grab, the new regime remained weak as the President hoarded all powers of state, and was ultimately toppled in 1922 after the death of General Franz.

As the leader of the Democratic Party, Walter Simons was elected to the presidency after the military dictatorship was toppled in 1922 and initially intended to serve as a caretaker President until the 1925 election, although he was allowed to remain in office until 1927 after congress voted to regard his presidency as separate to that of *the-late* Hans Luther. During his tenure, supporters of universal woman's suffrage began staging large protests and, despite initially refusing their requests, forced the Simons government to capitulate towards their demands in 1926, allowing all women over 21 to vote, whilst women were allowed to own property separate to that of a spouse or family member, granting large proportions of the country the right to vote and own land. Despite his reforms, Walter Simons was ousted by the Democratic Party midway through the 1927 election, giving the top spot to Raymond Poincare, who went on to win the election by a landslide. Having been "exiled" by his political party, Walter Simons continued to be an activist for equality and peace, supporting the Poincare government as a diplomat to the United Kingdom.

### Growth

Taking the leadership of the Democratic Party from President Walter Simons, Reymond Poincare was elected President in 1927 by a landslide and began a process of rapidly expanding the armed forces to combat the rising threat of the National Socialist party of Isgardia and their local militias which had been making raids across the boarder in the late 1920s. With the election of the NatSo leader to President of Isgardia, President Poincare set about fortifying the boarder between the two European behemoths, erecting the Poincare Line between 1929 and 1932 as the first line of defense against a predicted invasion force. As tensions between the two nations rose, a series of diplomatic talks were arranged by the United Kingdom and the United States to prevent the outbreak of another European war. With international incidents dominating his presidency, Reymond Poincare became deeply unpopular in the Bavarian regions of Dunsteen and the poorer groups who were neglected during his premiership. Suffering a stroke in just after winning the May 1934 election, President Poincare eventually died in August from heath related issues, passing the presidency to Prime Minister Deschanel.

With the death of President Raymond Poincare in 1934, Prime Minister Paul Deschanel took over the reign of the nation as President. Having to lead the nation through the crisis on the Isgardian boarder, President Deschanel suffered a series of political attacks from the National Party, as well as the growing Conservative Party before his government began to capitulate in 1935 with the resignation of much of his cabinet. Realizing that he wouldn't be able to keep the Democratic party in power through the 1935, Deschanel moved the election forward, before resigning his candidacy for the office of president just weeks before the election, allowing the leader of the National Party, Albert Lebrun, to cinch the 1935 election by an enormous landslide whilst effectively killing off the power and electoral power of the Conservative party for the next 19 years and collapsing the power base that President Poincare had worked so hard to achieve during his tenure in office.

Winning the 1935 Dunsteen Presidential Election by an enormous landslide, Albert Lebrun entered office as a reformist nationalist and over his first term in office he reformed much of the Dunstinian electoral system, lowering the voting age to 18 for both men and women as well as signing it into constitution that a presidency begins on May 1, although the election must be held on the first Saturday of February, allowing enough time for a winner to be declared and eliminating the transition period which ate up the first few weeks of a new President's tenure. On the international front, Lebrun enjoyed great success creating multi-national trade agreements and promoting Dunsteenian businesses worldwide. With the economy on the upturn, Lebrun enjoyed political fortune and was re-elected to office in 1940, 1945 and 1950 before losing the presidency in 1954 to Vincent Auriol and the Conservative Party after an economic shock caused by over-vigorous financial stimuli in the early 50s forced businesses into a false sense of complacency before the collapse of Dunsteen Technological Incorporated in 1953 shattered the stock exchange, allowing smaller upstarts to fill in the gaps left, whilst other super-corporations began to collapse, leaving millions unemployed. Having left office, Lebrun was brought back to the National Party in 1959 and failed to win the Presidency again in 1960, before he died in 1961 of old age.

### Stagnation

Taking over the presidency from Albert Lebrun after the 1954 Dunsteen Presidential Election, Vincent Auriol entered power on a wave on conservatism which destabilised the two major parties of the time (National and Democratic) and crushed most small electoral alliances. Coming to the presidency after nearly 20 years of the Lebrun Administration, Auriol began to impose electoral framework such as debates and privatising state radio networks to allow all parties to have equal reporting time, whilst setting a precedent by vetting all candidates for the Congress Conservatives and submitting proposals to both houses for term limits to be re-imposed upon Presidents after the original tenure of five years was formally scrapped in 1948, enforcing the five year limit in law once again as part of his re-election campaign in 1959, although a stroke on the night of July 10, 1959 forced him to resign from office just 78 days after securing a second term.

With the resignation of President Auriol in 1959, Prime Minister Rene Coty took office on July 14, 1959 and continued to enact the wide-reaching political and electoral reforms started by his predecessor. Finally passing the term limits act through Congress in November 1959, pressure began mounting on Coty to hold an election the next year to re-set the presidential elections back to the five year standard. Eventually capitulating to the demands, an election was held on February 6, 1960 and President Rene Coty was voted out of power in favour of Democratic Party leader Charles de Gaulle. In a last minute bid to remain in power, Coty denounced the election results before being forcefully evicted from his office in the Oregano Complex (the Dunsteen Presidential Offices) by the Dunsteen Guard on the orders of *president-elect* Charles de Gaulle.

### Rejuvenation

Having won the 1960 Dunsteen Presidential Election by a significant margin, Democratic party leader Charles de Gaulle was sworn into office on May 1, 1960 in the Berliner Schloss (*Berlin Palace*) after President Coty refused to leave the Oregano on the same day. Having legally taken command of the military, de Gaulle authorised the Presidential Guard to raid the Presidential office and forcefully evict Rene Coty on May 2, arresting him for treason the same afternoon. Finally allowed into his presidential offices, de Gaulle set about on a mission to continue the democratic re-construction of his predecessors, enshrining a 3 term limit on the presidency and granting the Presidential Guard the power to evict an incumbent president who refuses to accept the results of an election, Re-elected in 1965 Dunsteen Presidential Election by a landslide, de Gaulle faced off against Rene Coty in Congress after his 1961 trial resulted in acquittal until a charge of corruption was levied against the former President, who failed to escape sentencing and was incarcerated in Bonn after receiving a guilty verdict. As age began to take its toll on the ailing president, de Gaulle stepped down as the head of the Democratic party in the run up to the 1970 Presidential Election, allowing Prime Minister Gustav Heinemann to take the party nomination.

Having defeated Gustav Heinemann in the 1970 Presidential Election, Social Conservative party leader Heinrich Lebuke took office on May 1, 1970 as only the fourteenth President of Dunsteen. As an evolution of the former Conservative Party, Lebke's SC party managed to take control of Congress as well as the presidency, although House Democrats controlled the House of the People. Re-imagining the aims of the original Conservative party, Lebuke attempted to pass through socialist legislation to benefit those most in need of aid and support, but was continuously thwarted by members of his own party. With his Prime Minister, Lebuke set about reforming the public sector, raising taxes on a temporary basis and nationalising various businesses that had been privatised by Albert Lebrun in the 1940s. With unemployment still remaining from the collapse of DTI in 1953, Lubuke's nationalisation quickly became unpopular and resentment of the frequent tax hikes allowed Gustav Heinemann to win the 1975 Dunsteen Presidential Election.

### New Age Politics

Cinching the 1975 Presidential Election from incumbent President Lebuke by a significant margin, Democratic party leader and former Prime Minister Gustav Heinemann was inaugurated as president on May 1 of that year and began to further the social service plans enacted by both his predecessors, taking control of the house and landing several blows to the Social Conservatives, forcing them out of the political limelight in the summer of 1971. Coming to power without a Prime Minister candidate, Heinemann was able to convince SC PM Jacques Chaban-Delmas to switch to the Democratic party, serving as his PM for both of his presidential terms. Extending the Lokalisierte Medizin service into the Nationaler Gesundheitsservice (National Health Service) of Dunsteen, grating free healthcare to all tax paying Dunsteen citizens in a system based of the British NHS, allowing the majority of the populace access to reliable healthcare for the first time in their lives. Winning the 1980 Presidential Election by a landslide, a resurgent Social Conservative party led by Giscard Estaing emerged in the winter of 1982-83 and began to hamper Heinemann's prospects, voting down several extensions to the Dunsteen NGS in favour of a US based health system. Throwing his party further to the left of the political spectrum to combat the right-wing leadership of Estaing, Gustav Heinemann lost his senate majority in 1983 after midterm elections, before losing his House of Delegates majority in the 1984 run-up elections. Faced with the prospect of losing the 1985 election, Heinemann drew up plans to close both sessions of the legislature, before the supreme court ruled it unlawful in November 1984. Having lost the 1985 election, Heinemann ran again for the Presidency in 1990 but was ultimately defeated again by Estaing.

Taking control of the Senate in 1983 and the House of Delegates in 1984, Social Conservative party leader Giscard Estaing was able to defeat incumbent President Gustav Heinemann in the 1985 Presidential Election, riding to power on a resurgent wave of conservatism after ten years of Democrat rule. Reversing much of the Heinemann doctrine, Estaing pressed through a series of civil service reforms which passed control of the main state departments to the President's cabinet, rather than leaving it in the hands of top civil servants. As unrest within the Social Conservative party rose, Estaing was voted out of the top spot by a vote of no-confidence, abruptly ending the Estaing administration and placing Prime Minister Helmut Kohl as the new president in time for the 1995 Presidential Election. Having been exiled from Dunsteen politics, Giscard Estaing took up a lucrative position as chief editor of *Le Midi Socialiste*, the newspaper founded by former President Vincent Auriol.

Taking over from President Giscard Estaing in 1994, Prime Minister Helmut Kohl was inaugurated as President of Dunsteen on August 14, 1994 alongside Prime Minister Francois Hollande and inherited a nation with a vast array of political issues. Kohl's later life in political office was dominated by the CDU donations scandal. The party financing scandal became public in 2001, when it was discovered that the Social Conservative party had received and kept illegal donations during Kohl's leadership. Der Spiegel reported, "It was never suggested that Kohl benefited personally from political donations – but he did lead the party financial system outside of the legal boundaries, doing such things as opening secret bank accounts and establishing civic associations that could act as middle men, or procurement agencies, for campaign donations." As the scandal began to engulf the Social Conservatives, Frank Stienmeier of the Democratic party motioned for an early election in 2002 and the subsequent Presidential Election managed to unseat President Kohl.

### Twentieth Century

    As a result of the corruption scandal in his predecessor's term in office, Frank Stienmeier of the Democratic party motioned for an early election in 2002 and the subsequent Presidential Election placed him in the Oregano Complex as the new president of **Dunsteen** with a large majority behind him. Passing into effect the Presidential Election Redistribution Act of 2002, the Stienmeier administration changed the date on which the election would be held back into the proper constitutional date for a minimum of 10 years, or two terms, but this wouldn't go back to the correct date until the 2025 Dunsteen Presidential Election which was held under a state of emergency. During 10 years in office, Stienmeier attempted to pass through numerous reform bills, although his parliamentary majority was never enough and in 2012 he lost re-election to Francois Hollande.

    Winning the 2012 Dunsteen Presidential Election against incumbent President Frank Stienmeier, Francois Hollande won the office of president as the Social Conservative candidate and came into office. During his tenure, Hollande legalised same-sex marriage by passing Bill no. 344, reformed labour laws and credit training programmes, withdrew and concluded an EU directive on the protection of animals in laboratory research through a contract. Hollande led the country through the January and November 2015 Paris attacks, as well as the 2016 Nice truck attack. He was a leading proponent of EU mandatory migrant quotas and NATO's 2011 military intervention in Libya. He also sent troops to Mali and the Central African Republic with the approval of the UN Security Council in order to stabilise those countries, two operations largely seen as successful. Under his term, Dunsteen also became the most toured country in the world and known as a nation of open markets, regulatory efficiency, rule of law and limited governmental intervention. However with terror attacks being increasingly common, President Hollande failed to secure re-election in 2017, loosing to Emanuel Macron and retired from public life, with his party effectively dissolving after 52 years of existence, and 27 years in office across 4 leaders.

### Age of Revolution

    Taking office in 2017 following the ousting of President Francois Hollande, and as the youngest president of Dunsteen ever at just age 39, Emanuel Macron and the Democratic party came to power after securing a massive majority in the 2017 Dunsteen Presidential Election in parliament, granting them a wide platform to pass through a wide reaching set of laws to crack down on the terrorist threat to the nation, before an update to the bill was signed in March 2020 alongside a joint proclamation of neutrality between Prime Minister David Cameron and President Macron, regarding the Has Wars which were enveloping in Asia. Following a Hǔnluàn suicide bombing in the city of Nuremburg in 2021, Macron sent financial aid to the Libirachi Empire and the Persian Republic, whilst also pronouncing support for the creation of the Russian Federation as outlined by Viceroy Nadia Crestvick in late 2020. With the outbreak of the Libirachi Civil War, President Macron allied himself with the Union of Aligned Nations as a supporter rather than a member of the regime, espousing no desire to enter into a global conflict whilst also supporting Loxenian democrats during the Loxenian Civil War. With the formation of the Dunsteenian Rebel Alliance and the subsequent Battle for Dunsteen in 2023, Macron attempted to keep order with his own armed forces before having to seek help from the UAN to remove the DRA in order to bring back order to the region, but with EuroCorp and the Confederacy of Independent Nations backing the DRA, the Battle for Dunsteen was lost to the new Transitional State of Dunsteen, hurting both the Democrats and Macron politically. Despite winning the 2022 Dunsteen Presidential Election, Macron suffered major blowback from all the major political parties, with only a slight boost in popularity when Werner Reinheart became the leader of the Transitional State of Dunsteen, dubbing it the Corporate Republic of Dunsteen, which earned the scorn of both the internal and external communities. Forced into holding an early election in 2025, President Macron was binded both by Presidential Election Redistribution Act of 2002 (updated in 2012) and a rallying cry from both the public and parliament, the 2025 Dunsteen Presidential Election led to an overwhelming majority from the Green party, a previously third party political group, and placed Katharina Müller to the Presidency of Dunsteen.

Taking office at a time of deep political crisis in the aftermath of the Libirachi Civil War, which had left much of Europe in upheaval, and with the cession of the Corporate Republic of Dunsteen in 2023 the nation had struggled to keep itself on its feet, with an already unstable political system being thrown into chaos meddling Asian countries; Katharina Müller took office on the back of a liberal wave sweeping Europe, whilst widespread anger at the government of Emanuel Macron allowed the Green party to become the largest party in the nation as well as landing the presidency. Initiating the creation of the Tri-Nation Pact in 2026 between the Garcia presidency in Spain, the Nilsen administration in Avalonia and her own government in Dunsteen, Katharina Müller forged closer ties with her European neighbours in the aftermath of the secession of the Corporate Republic of Dunsteen in order to try to isolate the region and to strengthen it's own economy in the wake of the separation. Forming a liberal pact of regimes in Europe, Müller led Dunsteen in the wake of it's mid-decade internal strife and would go on to forge ties with the Libirachi Fox Dynasty as well as the Selina Meyer presidency in the United States and PM Matilda Crow of the UK; working with like-mined political allies, the Müller administration was able to navigate safely through the 2027 Global Banking Crisis and minimise damage to the already fragile economy.

## Monarchy

### Dunsteen House

 Wilhelm Dunsteen II | Wilhelm II
 Maximilian Dunsteen | Maximilian
 Rudolf Dunsteen | Rudolf
 Mathias Dunsteen | Mathias
 Ferdinand Dunsteen | Ferdinand

### Hasburg House

 Joseph Hasburg | Joseph
 Francis Hasburg II | Francis II
 Leopold Hasburg | Leopold

## Society

### National Anthem

The National Anthem of Dunsteen is entitled the *Volksmarsch*, or the People's March, and was composed in 1922 to commemorate the fall of President Franz Joseph and his regime. Adopted in 1930 by President Paul Deschanel, the *Volksmarsch* is the paramount anthem of the nation, used at all state events and military parades, as well as being used to commemorate the end of the Third Dunsteen Civil war and the triumph of the democratic parties of the nation.

## See Also

### Elections

* 1905 Dunsteen Presidential Election
* 1910 Dunsteen Presidential Election
* 1915 Dunsteen Presidential Election
* 1920 Dunsteen Presidential Election
* 1922 Dunsteen Presidential Election
* 1927 Dunsteen Presidential Election
* 1934 Dunsteen Presidential Election
* 1935 Dunsteen Presidential Election
* 1940 Dunsteen Presidential Election
* 1945 Dunsteen Presidential Election
* 1950 Dunsteen Presidential Election
* 1954 Dunsteen Presidential Election
* 1959 Dunsteen Presidential Election
* 1960 Dunsteen Presidential Election
* 1965 Dunsteen Presidential Election
* 1970 Dunsteen Presidential Election
* 1975 Dunsteen Presidential Election
* 1980 Dunsteen Presidential Election
* 1985 Dunsteen Presidential Election
* 1990 Dunsteen Presidential Election
* 1995 Dunsteen Presidential Election
* 2000 Dunsteen Presidential Election
* 2002 Dunsteen Presidential Election
* 2007 Dunsteen Presidential Election
* 2012 Dunsteen Presidential Election
* 2017 Dunsteen Presidential Election
* 2022 Dunsteen Presidential Election
* 2025 Dunsteen Presidential Election
* 2030 Dunsteen Presidential Election