German Socialist Republic

The **German Socialist Republic** (Commonly known as Germany or Deutschland) is a socialist republic located in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Netherlands to the west, France to the south west, Italy to the south, Slovenia to the south east, Hungary, Slovakia, and Czechia to the east, and Poland to the east. As of August 2089, it has a population of 102.672 million, and is currently led by Tillmann Oberhauser.

## History

The German defeat after the second Weltkrieg in 1999, brought by itself a new era of Anglo-Soviet relations. Since there were no “officially“ recognized differences between the Anglo-French forces and the Soviets, no precise occupation zones were established in the former German Empire. However. The “restoration of capitalism in Western Europe“ so called, was already widely recognized among the soviets in the 2010s. Many of the European countries with British Military presence after the war, including Greece, were politically and economically entwined into the sphere of Anglo-French “Neo Bourgeois“ interests. Since 2000, the military occupation zones were more of a “construction brigades“ of soldiers helping to rebuild and reorganize German infrastructure and economy after the war in the East and south occupied by Poland, The USSR and Italy. Industry was reorganized and reconstructed under the command of the state. Cornered by the new ultimatum of removal of the Anglo-French reconstruction corporations from the Rhine, The Bonn administration ordered its personell to leave construction sites and immediately arm themselves once again. On the 2nd of August, 2021, 10 thousand soldiers marched towards Berlin in order to overthrow the new free state of Germany.

In the face of Internationale law, The Anglo-French occupation was a special “operation of observation“ since the election of the pro-soviet government was considered to be rigged and unfair; this consideration gave the Bonn administration the right to carry out its deeds. On 8th August, 2021, the city of Berlin was fully occupied and on the next day the government had fallen. Ministers of the former government were jailed on their charges, And the government was temporarily replaced by the Bonn administration‘s military. Since in the face of Internationale law, military presence in the government of the free state of Germany was agreed upon to be illegal. On 11th, August 2021, the Soviet Union and all its allies across Europe signed the “August Agreement“, a military pact to counter the Anglo-French presence in Berlin. On August 17th, 2021 Polish and Soviet forces liberated Berlin, and on the next day, the socialist republic of Germany was formed.

By September 2nd, the Bonn Administration was dismantled, an open cold war is evident between the Soviet Union and the Union of Britain. After the August Crisis and the start of the 2nd Cold War, the Soviet government had started looking for someone to lead the new German Socialist Republic. Many options were looked through, but most were seen as not socialist enough, or were on the anti-soviet side of things. In the end, Sahra Wagenknecht was chosen as the first leader of the newly created German Socialist Republic. A staunch anti-capitalist, she was very friendly towards the Soviet Union, seeing it as the leader of the Socialist world, with her also drawing inspiration from the Syndicalist States of America in her views. On October 1st, 2021, Wagenknecht was inaugurated as the first chairperson of the German Socialist Republic

Right away, Wagenknecht had started implementing wide sweeping socialist reforms and policies in the country, vastly improving working conditions and giving the means of productions to the workers. She also started a proper rebuilding of the country, as many areas of the country were still suffering from the effects of the war, and as such aid was sent to war torn communities, and many new job opportunities were introduced. Of course, many protested the new socialist government, as they had more loyalty to the monarchy, but these were quickly suppressed. Many criticized these actions, but Wagenknecht said that these methods were necessary, as she believed that the return of the monarchy and capitalism would "led the country to ruin" in her words, as well as tying the protesters to far-right extremist groups to try and justify her actions.

Despite her pro-Soviet views, Wagenknecht had wanted Germany to maintain it's political independence, as she didn't want Germany to become a satellite state of the Soviets. Wagenknecht had begun a massive re-militarization of Germany, as the size of the German army had been massively reduced after the 2nd world war, as well as many soldiers and high ranking military figures fleeing to Australia and the other remains of the Weltreich in Oceania. Wagenknecht had also adopted a more independent foreign policy, establishing relations with countries like the SSA and Great Arab Jamahirya, which both drifted off from the Soviet Union during the 2010's. Despite some Soviet worries that Germany would also drift off from the August Agreement and the Soviet Union. Wagenknecht had wanted to dispel these rumors, as she said that "the interests of Germany and the USSR are intertwined with one another". In 2022, Wagenknecht had made her first state visit when she visited Moscow to meet with General Secretary Vladimir Lobov, to discuss the further cooperation between the 2 countries, as well as a wide range of other issues. Wagenknecht had made it clear that she wanted Germany to be treated as an equal to the Soviet Union when it came to the August Agreement, which Lobov agreed to.

By this point, the German Socialist Republic was already becoming a great power, despite the fact it had only existed for a few years by this point. With a booming economy and high standards of living, it was clear that Germany was already becoming very powerful once again, barely 20 years after the war On June 21st, 2024, the Hungarian revolution had started, where Hungarian citizens and politicians proclaimed the Free Republic of Hungary, As a result of this action, the August Agreement had declared war on the same day as the revolution, and had commenced an invasion into Hungary. Despite Germany's close relations with the USSR, it did not participate in the invasion, as Wagenknecht saw it as unlawful and barbaric. These remarks saw criticism from Soviet General Secretary Gennady Zyuganov (who had become General Secretary upon Vladimir Lobov's resignation on July 22 2023, his 88th birthday), who saw Wagenknecht's inaction as a "betrayal to the socialist world". Despite this brief scuffle, the 2 sides eventually resolved these issues.

On June 22, 2025, after a state visit to the SSA, Sahra Wagenknecht and her husband Oskar Lafontaine were ambushed on the steps of their personal residency by World War 2 veteran Steffen Sanner, who had attempted to kill the couple. While Wagenknecht survived the encounter with only minor injuries, the same could not be said about her husband Lafontaine, who was fatally wounded and died the next day in the hospital. A 1 week period of mourning was declared, and a state funeral was held, which saw leaders from the rest of the August Agreement attend. 3 days after the assassination, Sanner was caught by German authorities while he was trying to flee to Sudafrika. Authorities did an extensive search into Sanner's records, and found numerous connections to far-right, monarchist groups, and numerous messages about his deep hatred for the government. After this, Wagenknecht had ordered a brutal crack down on all right wing and monarchist groups, seeing them as traitors who "must be eliminated at all costs". all right wing and monarchist groups in the country were banned, including the Alliance for Austria, who advocated for an independent Austria, ruled by the Hapsburg dynasty. Criticisms against the government were made illegal, and on July 29, 2025, Steffen Sanner was executed.

Despite all this chaos, the German economy was still growing, and saw immigration from all across the world, such as Eastern Africa, South America, and even Eastern Europe, and more rights were implemented for minority groups. 2026 saw the start of the Carpathian Guerrilla War, where guerrilla groups rose up the Carpathian region of the Ukrainian SSR. These groups had wanted a truly free and independent Ukraine, one without any sort of foreign meddling. This would prompt the Soviet government to deploy troops to the region, and declare martial law in the area, which would later be applied to the entire Ukrainian SSR. Wagenknecht, who was very anti war, had demanded an end to the conflict, and for both sides to come to a peace agreement. Despite her demands, The Soviets began a crackdown on the rebels, and eventually began arresting those suspected of supporting them.

On December 30th, 2027, a right-wing monarchist mob had attempted to overthrow the government by breaking into the federal chancellery, killing Wagenknecht and any other socialist politicians, and declaring a provisional government until the Kaiser returns to Germany from his exile in Australia. This plot however failed, and only a few people were able to break in before they were all arrested. Since the whole plan of the coup was to reinstall the monarchy, the German government accused the Union of Britain and the Weltreich of orchestrating and funding the coup, especially due to the fact that the meeting of Buenos Aires had happened earlier, which saw the British Bloc and Central Powers improve relations with one another. Despite this, the governments of both of these countries denied these claims. This event would later be known as the New Years Coup, due to it happening only a day before new years ever. Regardless, this event only further convinced Wagenknecht to purge all right wing groups in the country, regardless of how extreme they were. Because of this, many right wingers and monarchists had fled into Western Europe

Things weren't so ideal in the Soviet Union either. Not only had the guerrilla war spread into Slovakia and Romania, but in 2031, the guerrilla's in Ukraine proclaimed the Carpathian Republic, with the hopes of liberating the rest of Ukraine and establishing a republic "ran by Ukrainians, for Ukrainians". This only caused the Soviet government to further crack down on the rebels, and to establish order in the SR. In 2033, after the governments of Britain, France, the Netherlands, and Iberia had met in the French city of Lyon to discuss a matter of current issues currently ongoing, the 4 had declared the formation of the Lyon Entente, a military and defensive agreement meant to counter the Soviet Unions August Agreement. After this turn of events, Germany had started to further ramp up militarization, and started deploying a massive amount of troops to it's borders with the Netherlands and France.

By 2036, the Carpathian Republic and it's guerrilla fighters had been defeated. Despite the Soviet in the war, this war, along with the 2024 Hungarian revolution, were seen by many as the beginning of the fall of the Soviet Union, as it showed that the Soviets were now becoming increasingly unpopular, and even in 2036, the Soviets weren't even given anytime to breath after the end of the Carpathian conflict. In the same year, M16 (the Union of Britain's foreign intelligence service) had supported Serbian co-ops in Serbia, Montenegro, and Srpska, who had wanted independence from Yugoslavia. They would then go onto form the Serbian Syndicate

Unlike the Hungarian revolution and the Carpathian war, Wagenknecht had fully supported the Yugoslavian government, seeing it as necessary to help preserve socialism and stability in the region, as 2 years prior, Greece had joined the Lyon Entente. Right away, Germany and the rest of the August Agreement had started sending troops and supplies to the Yugoslav government, along with other socialist countries such as the SSA, Cuba, Japan, and the Great Arab Jamahirya. Despite gaining some victories, the Serbs were able to resist Yugoslav and August Agreement forces, thanks to large amounts of aid and troops sent from the Lyon Entente, Mexico, and the Weltreich. In November of 2037, co-ops in Bosnia had also risen up and declared the Bosnian Syndicate, who also wanted to regain all lands it held during the Austrian era. At first, the Bosnian Syndicate would fight both the Yugoslav government and the Serbian Syndicate, but later on due to pressure from the Lyon Entente, the Bosnian and Serbian Syndicates had made peace with each other, and in exchange for Bosnia giving up it's claims on Serbian territory, it would be given a large amount of money from the Lyon Entente and a guarantee for it's sovereignty.

By December 2038, the Serbian Syndicate had formally declared independence, and had reorganized it's military structure to start a counter offence against the August Agreement. This was bad news for the August Agreement and Germany, as this war was putting cracks within the alliance By December of 2039, the Yugoslavian government had collapsed, and the remains of the socialist government where now split between the People's Republic of Croatia and the Socialist Republic of Slovenia In April of 2040, the August Agreement had fully pulled out their troops from Yugoslavia, seeing the war as nothing but a lost cause. This led many in the Croatian government to see this as a "great betrayal", but regardless, they fought on, and were able to make some gains against Serbia, and in February 2041, the treaty of Split was signed, was saw an end to the war, and saw the recognition of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, People's Republic of Croatia, the Bosniak Republic, and the Union of Serbia as independent states from all sides.

Back in Germany, Wagenknecht had started to tone down some her previous polices, mainly her laws that prohibited criticisms against the government. In 2035, she had allowed for much more criticism against the government. This had massively helped improve public opinion on her, who were angry with her more anti-free speech laws.

Despite her being more popular than ever, Wagenknecht had announced that she would be resigning from the position of the General Secretary of the German Socialist Republic, due to her now being in her 70's, along with a cancer diagnosis. Regardless, she had left her impact on the country, with "Wagenknechtism" becoming it's own version of socialism, advocating for much of her policies.

After her resignation, Benno Widenfield was chosen as her successor. A staunch socialist just like her, Widenfield had wanted to further improve ties with the Soviet Union, and while he was a big fan of the former chairperson, he criticized her for her non-participation in the Hungarian revolution and Carpathian war, believing that all anti-socialist revolution must be put down to "honor the revolutions of the socialist leaders of the past'. Despite his copying up to the Soviet Union, Widenfield had still wanted to preserve Germany's complete independence, and as such took measures first hand to help the war torn Balkans. In June of 2042, the "Widenfield Plan" had gone into effect, as massive amounts of aid was sent to Croatia and Slovenia to help them rebuild after the war. Infrastructure was rebuilt, food was distributed to prevent famine, and peace keepers were deployed to prevent further conflict in the region. Germany had also sent aid to Bulgaria and Albania, who had seen the war effect certain towns and cities near the former Yugoslav border. This had massively helped expand Germany's influence in the region, as countries started to implement policies similar to that of Germany. This influence had also found it's way to Finland, which at this point was neutral. Despite at first being a firm Soviet ally, it had later become neutral and hadn't joined the August Agreement at it's formation. This was due to the government being split between 2 sides: the moderates, who had wanted to implement social and economic policies similar to those of western Europe, and the extremists, who had advocated for full on socialism based of of countries like the Soviet Union, Germany, and the SSA. Thanks to German trade and help in the country, the extremists would eventually win, effectively putting Finland under it's mini sphere of influence

Meanwhile back home, living standards had been the best they've ever been since before the 2nd world war, with people being able to live a comfortable and stable life with new working policies that made working conditions better. Due to massive advancements in the technological and automotive industries, many have called Germany the "technological capital of the world", which many aspiring mechanics, engineers, and inventors moving to the country to study.

On October 17, 2047, Britain's M16 had given help to anti-Soviet, syndicalist trade union organizations in Poland, and helped them over throw the Socialist Republic of Poland, and replace it with the Union of Poland. Right away, the Soviet government had mobilized troops along the Polish border to bring an end to the pro-British government, and had called upon the rest of the August Agreement. The governments of Czechia, Slovakia, and Germany had complied, and started sending troops to the Polish border. On October 27, troops from all bordering countries had crossed into Poland to bring an end to it's new government.

After finding out Germany's involvement in crushing the new Polish government, many anti-war civilians had took to the streets to protest Germanys involvement, seeing it as yet another example of Soviet imperialism, as well as a betrayal to Wagenknecht's memory, as she had only passed away the previous year. As a responce to these protests, police forces were sent in to crack down on protesters, causing mass violence on the streets. After the new Polish government was overthrown, Widenfield would start a series of party purges against those who opposed the invasion, as well as accused moderates While the Union of Poland did their best to fight off the foreign forces, it was ultimately no use, as by November 2, the the forces of the August Agreement had crushed the Union of Poland, and established the November 2nd government to rebuilt the country and purge all leaders of the Union of Poland. Regardless, the whole operation was a huge blow to the participating parties popularity, as many living in their territories had seen it as just another example of the brutality of the August Agreement, and how it spent more time fighting it's own members instead of actual outside threats. Widenfield was now very unpopular, to the point where someone had attempted to assassinate him, though he escaped with very minor injuries. Regardless, it was clear he would need to do something to increase his popularity, or else he might be out of the job.

Starting off, he had once again allowed for more free speech. While Wagenknecht had taken back much of her anti-free speech policies by the end of her term, much of them had been re-implemented when he had taken office. Seeing it as a potential boost to his popularity, he introduced new laws regarding free speech, allowing much more criticism of the government, citing that "criticism is needed if we want to continue socialism". He had also wanted to increase his popularity on a world stage, as he wanted to paint himself as "one of the great defenders and leaders of socialism", and not as a brutal revolution crusher as had been seen during the Polish Autumn.

In 2050, Britain had accused the socialist Venezuelan government of human rights abuses, and has mobilized troops to order to "make sure freedom can endure all across the globe". Despite these remarks, Britain knew most of their claims were false, as their actual objective in the war was to secure Venezuela's vast amount of oil, which would give them an upper hand against the Syndicalist States of America. Seeing this as an opportunity to increase his popularity, protect socialism, and continue to gain more oil as Venezuela was Germany's main way of obtaining oil, Widenfield has announced his support for Venezuela, and had started sending supplies to help the government. Despite all the supplies the government of Venezuela had received, British forces were able to quickly and decisively win the war, and by the next year, a new bro-British government was installed in the country. With this massive military failure, the Widenfield government had looked elsewhere for intervention, and had had chosen Sudafrika and Namibia as their target. At this point, Namibia was still in the middle of a war of independence against the Sudafrikan Federation, and despite the NFA holding nearly all Namibian territory, the government had refused to grant Namibia independence. This then saw Germany intervene to help promote peace in the region. After a couple weeks of negotiation, the Beria peace treaty was signed on July 2nd, 2051, which saw Namibia finally gain independence as the Union of Namibia, and Sudafrika paying reparations to the government. Germany also saw this as the perfect opportunity to spread socialism, and had immediately start sending help and aid to Namibia to help it rebuild after 2 decades of war, and to also pay back reparations for the Weltreichs harsh rule over the country. These actions had earned Widenfield, as well as Sudafrikan President Christiaan Schonland and NFA leader Samuel Mukwiilongo earn that years nobel peace prize, although some still saw Widenfields actions being done simply to improve his image. Regardless, Widenfield had achieved what he set out to do, and any threats of him losing power were now gone.

When the Algerian-Moroccan war started in 2056, Germany was sure to start sending supplies to Algeria and the Great Arab Jamahirya, in order to help improve relations between the August Agreement and the League of Islamic Jamahirya's. After the war ended, Germany had sent supplies and aid to Algeria to help it recover from the war, further helping improve relations with the Jamahiryan Arab World.

WIth the start of the 60's on it's way, many had started to wonder if Widenfield would step down from his role like Wagenknecht had done years ago. These were confirmed to be true, as despite Widenfield having no health problems, he announced his stepping down at the beginning of the new decade. In his place Albert Schubert from Austria had taken his place. Schubert had wanted to continue the legacies of Wagenknecht and Widenfield by promoting socialist and peace around the world, but this decade would be one of the most turbulent in not only modern history, but just history in general.

During the 60's, the Soviet bloc had started to collapse due to the failure to organize a post-industrial automated cybernetic socialist economy. This saw most of the Soviet Bloc fall to neoliberal revolutions, Seeing the collapse happening at any moment now, Schubert had started to strengthen his role over the country to prevent any sort of neoliberal revolution from happening in Germany. Despite the socialist government being very popular in Germany, there were still many Germans who had wanted to restore the monarchy, though most of these groups were now operating from outside of Germany due to the laws passed by Wagenknecht. With the neoliberal revolution in Poland in May of 2063, Schubert had taken action to prevent any sort of neoliberal revolution in the country. German monarchists and right wingers were temporarily arrested, military officies had begun guarding important government buildings, and a temporary state of emergency was established until the crisis was over. Despite some small protests in some major cities, Germany was able to dodge the collapse of the Soviet Bloc, and had allowed for the German Socialist Republic to continue it's existence. With the threat to it's existence being over, Germany now looked to it's neighbors to protect their socialist governments.

After the Yugoslav Wars, Croatia, Slovenia, Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, and Italy were all effectively under Germany's sphere of influence, due to massive amounts of aid and supplies sent to the first 4, and the massive amounts of trade and military cooperation between the last 2. Because of this, many leaders in the aforementioned countries had become Wagenknechtists, following her policies and beliefs. With the start of the neoliberal revolutions, Germany had stationed troops in those countries in order to help preserve their governments and prevent any sort of chaos. While this worked for most countries, Bulgaria had fallen into a civil war, as the country was much more split between neoliberal revolutionaries and the socialist government, with Serbia, Romania, and Greece all eventually intervening to help the neoliberals, as well as to take some land from Bulgaria. In responce to this, Germany had announced full support to the socialist Bulgarian government, and right away it had sent troops and supplies to help the government out.

During November of the same year, Greece had begun an invasion of the Turkish Socialist Republic, in order to topple it's government, and to implement the "megil idea", which see them taking many lands from Turkey, including the ancient city of Istanbul). With yet another war erupting due to the fall of the August Agreement, Germany now had to contend with yet another war in the Balkans. And thinks would get even more chaotic, as starting in April 2064, Armenia declared independence from the USSR, the first country to do so. Followed by the other Caucasus countries of Georgia and Azerbaijan, the republics that made up the Soviet Union would break away, culminating Russia, the head honcho of the Soviet Union, declaring independence in May of 2065, leaving only southern Turkestan as the only remnants of the Soviet Union. This left confusion in who would lead the socialist world, as Syndicalist America and the Great Arab Jamahirya both vying for the role, as they dealt with their own dissidents. Germany had also wanted this role, but with the socialist government in Bulgaria being overthrown and the war in Turkey currently being in favor of the invading Greeks, this seemed unlikely. However, when the Turks were able to push back invading Greek and Armenian forces, as well as Kurdish rebels in the south east, Germany saw an opportunity to re-unite the socialist world.

On July 22, 2068, leaders from the remaining Soviet Bloc, including the Soviet Rump State, had meet in Berlin to found the 2nd Comintern, in order to re-unite the socialist world again the "Neo British Empire and the Weltreich". Now the socialist world were able to one again face off against the Lyon Entente, this time under Germany's leadership, which saw many pointing out the irony of the cold war now being against a capitalist imperialist Britain vs a socialist Germany, a far cry from the cold war of the 20th century.

With the Greeks being fully pushed out of Turkey by December 2069, Germany was now focused on reconciling relations with the rest of the socialist world. Right away military cooperation and trade with the 2nd Comintern had massively increased with the new threat of a pro-British Eastern Europe, including Russia. 2 Comintern troops had also helped in the reconstruction of Turkey, which had seen massive amounts of death in it's victorious war against Greece. In 2071, after the start of the Horn of Africa war between Somalia and Ethiopia, Germany had sent supplies to the socialist Ethiopian government against pro-British Somalia In 2073, The Havana Pact (Syndicalist America's alliance between itself and it's American allies) had joined the 2nd Comintern, a major victory for the 2nd Comintern

In 2073, nuclear missiles in Siam had unexpectedly went off, causing deaths in the millions, and massive destruction, This led to massive criticisms of the government, and world wide talks on what should be done with nukes, as technological advancements had caused nukes to be even deadlier than before. The same year in April, world leaders from all corners of the world had met in Tripoli, the former capital of the Great Arab Jamahirya, to decide the fate of nukes. By the end of the conference, everyone had agreed to the disarmament of nuclear weapons, and the banning of the creation of any new ones. With this decsion met, Germany had begun dismantling it's nuclear arsenal, which had begun development in 2030.

In September 2074, Germany had helped high ranking military officers in Italy overthrow the government of Alessio Blanco, who had slowly been moving Italy towards the Lyon Entente. A transitional military government had been put in place, and by next month, military general Alceste Caruso had become chairman of the Socialist Republic of Italy, and had undone most of Blanco's policies. Despite Schubert's popularity in uniting the socialist world however, one major event would muddle his legacy.

After decades of oil drilling in Antarctica and the north pole, much of the world's ice sheets had begun to melt, causing flooding of apocalyptic levels, causing most governments to build dams or implement other anti-flooding methods. Germany had built a dam to protect the capital of Berlin, but despite Berlin being saved from flooding, the same could not be said about the rest of the countries north. Due the countries rather flat terrain in the north, many towns and cities were flooded, including the historical and populous of Hamburg, Bremen, and most egregiously, Konigsburg, the historical capital of Prussia. Many had rioted against government decisions to only protect Berlin, leaving people elsewhere in the north to flee south. While the Schubert administration had cited economic reasons for why only Berlin had a damn, but many criticized this choice of words, citing that at this point, Germany had a GDP in the trillions, placing it in the top 10 economies of the time. Despite the flooding of the north, measures were implemented to ensure those in the north were able to flee safely and comfortably to cities in the south. Regardless, many would debate on whether or not the Schubert government was correct in not building dams in the north, but regardless, the Schubert government had survived, despite riots and protests, and a reconstruction campaign began in the north to help it recover from the damage caused by the flood

The start of the 80's had seen TIllmann Oberhauser become chairman in a time where tensions were higher than ever, with mass unrest across the globe, new conflicts, and nationalist governments coming to power in several countries. Seeing another major war as inevitable, Oberhauser ordered a new militarization program to fight off a war against France and Britain. In the same year Oberhauser came to power, the countries of the League of Islamic Jamahirya's had joined the 2nd Comintern, with all 3 major socialist factions now together against the Lyon Entente. Meanwhile in Bulgaria, protesters had overthrown the conservative government and reinstalled socialism in the country, providing another ally for the 2nd Comintern.

In 2083, a nationalistic government in the form of the Romantic party came to power in Britain and proclaimed the Republic of Britain. With an even more hostile British government, Germany had further ramped development on weapons programs in Germany. Germany would also help the federalist government in India during it's civil war, against the southern unionists supported by Britain and China. In 2089, a series of events would led to the start of a long expected World War 3

On July 1, after a referendum, Germany had announced that it would be annexing Switzerland, which was left as a rump state after the 2nd World War. Despite the referendum, it was found that it was heavily rigged in favor of the join Germany option. The Lyon Entente refused to recognize the annexation of Switzerland legitimate, and had denounced the German government. Mass protests had occurred in Switzerland against the annexation, leading to a massive crackdown of dissidents in Switzerland. After all the violence, the Lyon Entente offered Germany an ultimatum: Leave Switzerland by August, or face military action. The German government had refused this, and the Lyon Entente had started preparing troops for a war. On August 1, a clash between German and Danish troops between some islands had occurred after German troops invaded it, and due to this event, the 3rd World War had started the next day, With Germany invading and occupying the rest of Denmark and launching an invasion of Norway, while Finland had begun an invasion into Sweden. With most of the world now being roped into this new war, the fate of Germany was now very uncertain.

## Government

The government of the German Socialist Republic stands as a socialist system shaped by a rich history of leaders and policies. Founded after the fall of the German Empire, it evolved through various phases under different leaders, each leaving their unique imprints. Initially under the stewardship of Wagenknecht, the government upheld a robust socialist structure emphasizing egalitarian principles. Wagenknecht's tenure was marked by policies promoting social welfare, economic equality, and minority rights. Despite her strong socialist principles, her administration also faced criticism for restricting free speech to maintain political order.

Successively, Benno Widenfield took the helm. As a committed socialist, he continued the socialist agenda but aimed to strengthen ties with the Soviet Union. His administration maintained a balance between socialist sovereignty and international relations. Widenfield’s policies sought to support neighboring countries and socialist movements, especially during conflicts like the Yugoslav Wars. However, his decision to suppress opposition, notably regarding interventions in Poland and Venezuela, led to a decline in public support and protests against government actions.

Schubert succeeded Widenfield, inheriting a socio-political landscape characterized by a powerful socialist stronghold tempered with civil unrest. His administration faced challenges, especially surrounding the catastrophic flooding in the country’s north. The government's decision to prioritize building a protective dam only around Berlin sparked widespread criticism, raising debates over resource allocation and perceived regional favoritism.

Throughout these transitions, the government maintained a socialist framework that ensured economic stability, technological advancement, and strong social policies, contributing to the nation's global reputation as a technological hub and a champion of socialist ideals. While supporting socialist factions worldwide, Germany’s role expanded, leading to its involvement in various regional conflicts. The government's influence extended to neighboring countries, including Bulgaria, Italy, and others, with socialist ideologies embedded in their governance systems.

## Economy

The economy of the German Socialist Republic exhibited a robust and dynamic landscape despite the geopolitical tensions and conflicts that brewed on the global stage. Germany emerged as an economic powerhouse, often hailed as the "technological capital of the world." The nation experienced significant growth and stability, marking a remarkable departure from the chaos and conflicts that were erupting in various parts of the world. This economic stability was accompanied by widespread improvements in living standards, making life relatively comfortable and stable for citizens. A series of innovative policies specifically targeted the working conditions, fostering better labor standards and worker rights, which contributed to the populace's overall quality of life.

Germany's economic success primarily stemmed from significant advancements in the technological and automotive sectors. These industries flourished, attracting aspiring mechanics, engineers, and inventors from around the world to study and work in the country. The technological prowess and industrial innovations solidified Germany's position as a leader in cutting-edge developments, fostering a sense of progress and innovation that underpinned the nation's economic prosperity.

Despite this economic prosperity, Germany faced political challenges both domestically and on the global stage. Internationally, conflicts with the Lyon Entente and other alliances, along with the brewing tensions, created uncertainties and potentially affected the economic climate. However, Germany's stability and economic prowess positioned it as a prominent figure in the global economy, with the country holding its place among the top-ranking nations, economically speaking.

## Society

Over time, the German Socialist Republic achieved remarkable progress in societal welfare. Through socialist policies, there was a strong emphasis on providing universal healthcare, education, and social welfare, fostering a more equitable and accessible system for all citizens. This led to a substantial improvement in living standards, ensuring that people had access to basic necessities and enjoyed a more comfortable lifestyle. These policies also contributed to a more stable and secure environment, marked by reduced inequality and improved social mobility. The republic placed a significant focus on enhancing workers' rights and conditions. Labor laws and policies were designed to improve working conditions, ensuring fair wages, reasonable working hours, and safe work environments. These efforts led to the development of a robust work culture, promoting labor rights, collective bargaining, and workers' participation in decision-making processes within their respective industries.