UdSDRR

The Union's coat of arms over the red banner of Labour

**Germany**, officially der **Union der Sozialistischen Deutschen Räterepubliken (UdSDRR),** meaning the Union of Socialist German Soviet Republics, which can alternatively be called the **Räte-Union,** is a union of republics joined under a system of Council Democracy, located in the Region of Flussland on the banks of the Rhine river.

## History

### Germanic Tribes

What we now call Germany is the region beyond the Rhine where the nomadic germanic peoples settled after migrating from the (cardinal direction) in the 2nd century, mixing with other native tribes, and taking over parts of the remnants of the Frisian empire.

### Osträuber

During the 5th century the (continent) saw a large number of raiders that came from the far East, who plundered and pillaged and then rapidly fled back in hit and run attacks, and were nicknamed the "Osträuber" in Germany. While the Frisian response to this was to unite under one banner, the german fiefdoms beyond the rhine were more skeptic to such a union, instead they would call each other to war, and a tradition grew around it, if one denied such a summon they would be seen as dishonorable and could count with being left alone if the raids came to them.

### The Lausteig League

By the 7th century the raids had stopped, and Germany now was a land full of separate feudal realms, city-states, and merchant republics all sharing a similar culture and an intricate web of rivaling trade leagues and alliances. To ensure their ability to maintain this fragmented state and defend itself from their neighbours they could no longer rely on tradition alone, the fiefdoms had to formalize an agreement by bonding together with the signing of the Lausteig Pact in 894, which created a defensive league, along with standardisation of tariff rates and abolishing of tariffs between the countries of the League, deals between merchant guilds and some other matters, encompassing almost every contemporary realm of Germanic origin, except those on the other side of the Rhine such as Frisia, who all were bound to join forces whenever one of its members faced an external attack, while still not influencing the sovereignty of its members and without preventing wars between themselves, the infamous Ligaskriege, or League wars. The Lausteig League lasted for several more centuries until the rise of Bavaria as a kingdom.

### Bavaria

The Duchy of Bavaria was originally created by the germanic Bavarian tribes in 817 by the Wittelsbach dynasty, and eventually it became a military powerhouse within the Lausteig League by making use of their renowned elite cavalry. It increasingly grew in size and influence, by the 12th century it had become the unrivalled leader of the League. In the 13th century war broke out between it and many other (continent demonym) kingdoms, which to add insult to injury was succeeded by the longest Ligakrieg in German history. This culminated with a Bavarian victory and in 1272 the Duke of Bavaria convened with the members of the League and had them sign the Treaty of Arnwald which established Bavaria as a Kingdom and its sovereignty over the fiefdoms of Lausteig, dismantling the league forever. Bavaria then spent the next century stomping out squabbles, stabilizing the kingdom, strengthening its economy and promoting trade.

During the 15th Century, Bavaria saw a long period of peace. The agreements laid out in 894 led to the fomenting of a guild tradition all around the League, artisan's and merchant's importance and wealth continue to rise after the 14th century. With Arnwald as one of (continent)'s greatest centers of trade, Bavaria continued to prosper and develop.

While in the 17th century most (continent demonym) countries focuses on expanding overseas, the Kingdom of Bavaria focus on building up its manufacturing industry, and education, being one of the first countries to have a mandatory education system

## Government and Politics

*Main article: Politics of the UdSDRR*

The **UdSDRR** is a union of eight constituent council republics, it is an unicameral council democracy with a system built on the delegate model of representation where council delegates are elected by worker's councils under imperative mandates, in which the delegates are accountable to their council, act as their voice, and can be recalled at any time by them. The delegates then meet in plenary sessions in their local councils, these then elect delegates to each **Regional Congress of Councils**, then to the respective **Republic's Congress of Councils** and then to the **National Congress of Councils**.

### Government

The **National Congress of Councils** will then elect one of its members as the **General-Secretary of the National Congress**, who will serve as the head of state but has very few powers without the approval of Congress, he will then appoint a German citizen as a candidate for Chairman (Vorsitzender) of the **Overarching Central Executive Council of the Union** (der Übergreifend Zentrale Exekutivrat der UdSDRR or **UZERdU**).

The Chairman will then appoint several German citizens as candidates for the head of each ministry who are then approved by the **National Congress** (or not), with the exception of the heads of the Armed Organs who don't need their approval.

### Parties

Because of the imperative mandate system, party affiliation does not matter as much as in other multi partidary countries, but nevertheless parties have formed and still play a quintessential role in politics with their organizing of political campaigns and media.