German Federation

### Interesting Fact

After the 4th World War, Germany officially now has a world war win to loss ratio of 3.5:0.5. (Ja, Progress.)

The **German Federation** is a major nation located in Central Europe. It, alongside Poland and Danubian Hungary were the original three founding members of the European Intermarium (Later the European Commonwealth). Germany would go through a long period of turmoil, with its defeat in the 3rd World War, and half-defeat in the 4th World War (As Germany was split into two, and one side won while the other lost. This is considered a half victory).

Following the Fatalist Twilight War however, and the reunification of Germany into one unified country, even retaking lands such as the Rhinelands, as well as Austria, Germany has emerged on the world stage as a democratic major power. As the United States of America, and later North American Federation would retreat deeper into isolationism, Germany, and the European Commonwealth it commanded would come to represent democracy on the broader world stage.

## Description

After losing 3 and half out of the 4 world wars, Germany somehow found itself with more land than at the beginning of the century, having regained Austria as people stopped caring about treaties from the 2nd World War. And the Geneva Convention. Germany started out as an illiberal regime ruled by a group of German industrialist-aristocrats, who both acted like landed gentry, and also owned much of East Germany’s industrial concerns. But over time, gradual pressure and reform from Germany’s free market, as well as the liberalization of Poland from revanchist ultra nationalism into nationalist democracy also pushed Germany towards more democracy.

A group of exiles from neighboring Fatalist Germany, Former German Unionists, mild technocrats, German intellectuals, and many others eventually began the construction of the new German state. They concluded that the German pacifism of the early 21st century was a mistake, as it had allowed for the rise of Russia in WW3, and the subsequent chaos of the Interwar Period and 4th World War afterwards. Just as the aggression of WW2 had created a pacifist backlash, the pacifism of the early 21st century resulted in a militarist backlash. Members of the old Unionists ditched their authoritarian ways and re branded themselves as “New Unionists”, who were significantly more democratic, and formulated Germany’s new ideology going forward. They would be the vanguard of Europe, agents of global liberation, and the arsenal of democracy. They would put enormous amounts of money into the military, and then brandish it like a sword to enforce the will of democracy around the globe.

Since then, the government has swung between Liberal and New Union coalition control, life has generally improved, and the nation’s general ideology can be best described as “national liberal”. They follow classical liberalism, and they are proud of it. The German Constitution established in 2092 is widely considered to be on far with the American Constitution when it comes with protecting individual liberty, but also promoting a form of civic nationalism.

Despite its history of pacifism, and their general focus on individual liberty, the German military also mandates 3 year of military service for all men and women, though this has exemptions for those who have medical conditions. Modern Germany has strong ties to post-Revanchist Poland, who is Germany’s main partner and either the 1st or 2nd strongest military in the European Intermarium, holding a monopoly on Europe’s exoskeletons. Germany sees Poland as a reliable ally, and Poland is just glad the Germans are finally taking the defense of Europe seriously. As of the dawn of the 22nd century, both have also created close ties to Turkey, and helped them fight proxy conflicts across the Middle East on behalf of democratic values.