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The Federal Dominion of Germany

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Motto: Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit ("Unity and Justice and Freedom")

Germany - Basic Information

Commonly known as: Germany
Nation Name: Federal Dominion of Germany
Official Language: German (French and Dutch are sometimes used)
Demonym: German
Population: 163,595,697 (Jan. 2008 estimate)
Area: 414,438 square miles

Government: Federal Parliamentary Republic
GDP (PPP): $5,351,929,000,000
Per capita: $32,814
GDP (nominal): $6,117,271,000,000
Per capita: $37,506
Currency: German Mark
Capital: Berlin
Major Cities: Reserved

History

The ethnogenesis of the Germanic tribes is assumed to have occurred during the Nordic Bronze Age, or at the latest, during the Pre-Roman Iron Age. From southern Scandinavia and northern Germany, the tribes began expanding south, east and west in the 1st century BC, coming into contact with the Celtic tribes of Gaul as well as Iranian, Baltic, and Slavic tribes in Eastern Europe. Little is known about early Germanic history, except through their recorded interactions with the Roman Empire, etymological research and archaeological finds.

Under Augustus, the Roman General Publius Quinctilius Varus began to invade Germania (a term used by the Romans running roughly from the Rhine to the Ural Mountains) , and it was in this period that the Germanic tribes became familiar with Roman tactics of warfare while maintaining their tribal identity. In AD 9, three Roman legions led by Varus were defeated by the Cheruscan leader Arminius in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. Modern Germany, as far as the Rhine and the Danube, thus remained outside the Roman Empire. By AD 100, the time of Tacitus' Germania, Germanic tribes settled along the Rhine and the Danube (the Limes Germanicus) , occupying most of the area of modern Germany. The 3rd century saw the emergence of a number of large West Germanic tribes: Alamanni, Franks, Chatti, Saxons, Frisians, Sicambri, and Thuringii. Around 260, the Germanic peoples broke through the Limes and the Danube frontier into Roman-controlled lands.


The medieval empire stemmed from a division of the Carolingian Empire in 843, which was founded by Charlemagne on 25 December, 800, and existed in varying forms until 1806, its territory stretching from the Eider River in the north to the Mediterranean coast in the south. Often referred to as the Holy Roman Empire (or the Old Empire) , it was officially called the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation ("Sacrum Romanum Imperium Nationis Germanicæ") starting in 1448, to adjust the title to its then reduced territory.

Under the reign of the Ottonian emperors (919-1024) , the duchies of Lorraine, Saxony, Franconia, Swabia, Thuringia, and Bavaria were consolidated, and the German king was crowned Holy Roman Emperor of these regions in 962. Under the reign of the Salian emperors (1024-1125) , the Holy Roman Empire absorbed northern Italy and Burgundy, although the emperors lost power through the Investiture Controversy. Under the Hohenstaufen emperors (1138-1254) , the German princes increased their influence further south and east into territories inhabited by Slavs. Northern German towns grew prosperous as members of the Hanseatic League.

The edict of the Golden Bull in 1356 provided the basic constitution of the empire that lasted until its dissolution. It codified the election of the emperor by seven prince-electors who ruled some of the most powerful principalities and archbishoprics. Beginning in the 15th century, the emperors were elected nearly exclusively from the Habsburg dynasty of Austria.

The monk Martin Luther wrote his 95 Theses questioning the Roman Catholic Church in 1517, thereby sparking the Protestant Reformation. A separate Lutheran church was acknowledged as the newly sanctioned religion in many German states after 1530. Religious conflict led to the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) , which devastated German lands. The population of the German states was reduced by about 30%. The Peace of Westphalia (1648) ended religious warfare among the German states, but the empire was defacto divided into numerous independent principalities. From 1740 onwards, the dualism between the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy and the Kingdom of Prussia dominated German history. In 1806, the Imperium was overrun and dissolved as a result of the Napoleonic Wars.

Following the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Congress of Vienna convened in 1814 and founded the German Confederation (Deutscher Bund) , a loose league of 39 sovereign states. Disagreement with restoration politics partly led to the rise of liberal movements, demanding unity and freedom. These, however, were followed by new measures of repression on the part of the Austrian statesman Metternich. The Zollverein, a tariff union, profoundly furthered economic unity in the German states. During this era many Germans had been stirred by the ideals of the French Revolution, and nationalism became a more significant force, especially among young intellectuals. For the first time, the colours of black, red and gold were chosen to represent the movement, which later became the national colours.


In light of a series of revolutionary movements in Europe, which successfully established a republic in France, intellectuals and commoners started the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states. The monarchs initially yielded to the revolutionaries' liberal demands. King Frederick William IV of Prussia was offered the title of Emperor, but with a loss of power; he rejected the crown and the proposed constitution, leading to a temporary setback for the movement. Conflict between King William I of Prussia and the increasingly liberal parliament erupted over military reforms in 1862, and the king appointed Otto von Bismarck the new Prime Minister of Prussia. Bismarck successfully waged war on Denmark in 1864. Prussian victory in the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 enabled him to create the North German Federation (Norddeutscher Bund) and to exclude Austria, formerly the leading German state, from the affairs of the remaining German states.

The state known as Germany was unified as a modern nation-state in 1871, when the German Empire was forged, with the Kingdom of Prussia as its largest constituent. After the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, the German Empire (Deutsches Kaiserreich) was proclaimed in Versailles on January 18, 1871. The Hohenzollern dynasty of Prussia ruled the new empire, whose capital was Berlin. The empire was a unification of all the scattered parts of Germany except Austria (Kleindeutschland, or "Lesser Germany"). Beginning in 1884, Germany began establishing several colonies outside of Europe.

In the Gründerzeit period following the unification of Germany, Emperor William I's foreign policy secured Germany's position as a great nation by forging alliances, isolating France by diplomatic means, and avoiding war. Under William II, however, Germany, like other European powers, took an imperialistic course leading to friction with neighbouring countries. Most alliances in which Germany had been previously involved were not renewed, and new alliances excluded the country. Specifically, France established new relationships by signing the Entente Cordiale with the United Kingdom and securing ties with the Russian Empire. Aside from its contacts with Austria-Hungary, Germany became increasingly isolated.

Germany's imperialism reached outside of its own country and joined many other powers in Europe to claim their share of Africa. The Berlin Conference divided Africa between the European powers. Germany owned several pieces of land on Africa including German East Africa, South-West Africa, Togo, and Cameroon. The Scramble for Africa caused tension between the great powers that may have contributed to the conditions that led to World War I.

The assassination of Austria's crown prince on June 28, 1914 triggered World War I. Germany, as part of the unsuccessful Central Powers, suffered defeat against the Allied Powers in one of the bloodiest conflicts of all time. The German Revolution broke out in November 1918, and Emperor William II and all German ruling princes abdicated. An armistice putting an end to the war was signed on November 11 and Germany was forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919. Its negotiation, contrary to traditional post-war diplomacy, excluded the defeated Central Powers. The treaty was perceived in Germany as a humiliating continuation of the war by other means and its harshness is often cited as having facilitated the later rise of Nazism in the country

After the success of the German Revolution in November 1918, a republic was proclaimed. The Weimar Constitution came into effect with its signing by President Friedrich Ebert on 11 August 1919. The German Communist Party was established by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in 1918, and the German Workers Party, later known as the National Socialist German Workers Party or Nazi Party, was founded in January 1919.

Suffering from the Great Depression, the harsh peace conditions dictated by the Treaty of Versailles, and a long succession of more or less unstable governments, the political masses in Germany increasingly lacked identification with their political system of parliamentary democracy. This was exacerbated by a wide-spread right-wing (monarchist, völkisch, and Nazi) Dolchstoßlegende, a political myth which claimed that Germany lost World War I because of the German Revolution, not because of military defeat. On the other hand, radical left-wing communists, such as the Spartacist League, had wanted to abolish what they perceived as "capitalist rule" in favour of a Räterepublik. Paramilitary troops were set up by several parties and there were thousands of politically motivated murders. The paramilitary intimidated voters and seeded violence and anger among the public, which suffered from high unemployment and poverty. After a series of unsuccessful cabinets, President Paul von Hindenburg, seeing little alternative and pushed by right-wing advisors, appointed Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933.

On 27 February 1933, the Reichstag was set on fire. Some basic democratic rights were quickly abrogated afterwards under an emergency decree. An Enabling Act gave Hitler's government full legislative power. Only the Social Democratic Party of Germany voted against it; the Communists were not able to present opposition, as their deputies had already been murdered or imprisoned.[14][15] A centralised totalitarian state was established by a series of moves and decrees making Germany a single-party state. Industry was closely regulated with quotas and requirements, to shift the economy towards a war production base. In 1936 German troops entered the demilitarized Rhineland, and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policies proved inadequate. Emboldened, Hitler followed from 1938 onwards a policy of expansionism to establish Greater Germany. To avoid a two-front war, Hitler concluded the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with the Soviet Union, a pact which was later broken by Germany.

In 1939, the growing tensions from nationalism, militarism, and territorial issues led to the Germans launching a blitzkrieg on September 1 against Poland, followed two days later by declarations of war by Britain and France, marking the beginning of World War II. Germany quickly gained direct or indirect control of the majority of Europe.

Germany fought for 6 years, until finally it was overrun in May 1945, and it surrendered to the allies. Germany was badly damaged by the war, millions of Germans had perished. The economy was in tatters.

In 1954, the Federal Dominion of Germany was declared. The allied occupiers left the country. The German army was rearmed. By 1967, it was a powerful force. It was now turning its attention to Netherlands. The Germans were surprised in 1966 by the invasion of Portugal by Spain. On March 5, 1968, tens of thousands of Germans poured in Netherlands.

The Netherlands, still fixing everything destroyed by World War 2, was invaded again by the Germans in 1968. The war was short but a bloody one. Ten thousand Germans gave their lives to take the Netherlands. The Dutch army surrendered after a six months war.

France, alarmed by the invasion of Netherlands, declared war on Germany. The Germans were ready, and a French army of thirty thousand men invaded Western Germany. The Germans put up a stiff fight and drove the French back to the border. The French attempted to invade the Netherlands using their navy, but the French lost one cruiser and two frigates to the German submarines.

Now the Germans invaded France. Panzer style. Hundreds of WW2 era tanks and modern tanks raced across the border and arrived close to Paris on September 16, 1969. One hundred thousand German troops advanced behind the tanks and encircled Paris.

There was a setback. Dutch troops that joined the Germans were defeated a few miles south of Paris. It was a complete disaster, three thousand Dutch-German troops were dead, thousands more captured. The Germans had a change in command.

The French launched an offensive and took back Besancon from the German army. However, the French offensive was stopped and Besancon was taken back. The morale of the French fell. The Germans and Dutch rallied again.

Paris fell on March 3, 1970. Tens of thousands of French troops were captured. The Massive German army of two hundred thousand rolled across France. The Germans were stopped briefly at Le Mans, but the offensive continued. The Germans reached Brest on July 16, 1970 and Toulouse fell on October 18, 1970.

The remaining French army surrendered throughout the winter of 1970-1971. France was now under German rule. From 1971-1985, the Germans ruled France brutally until peace was finally established.

Military of the Dominion

Army

Active Forces: 451,228 Soldiers
Reserve Forces: 126,812 Reservists


Infantry Equipment

Heckler & Koch G36—5.56 mm x 45 assault rifle replacing the Heckler & Koch G3 as primary weapon
Version G36K and G36C for several branches including Special Forces
Heckler & Koch MG4—5.56 mm light machine gun, replacing the MG3 in the squad automatic weapon role
MG3—7.62 mm x 51 machine g
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G8—7.62 mm x 51 automatic rifle, only used by special forces
HK21E—7.62 mm x 51 machine gun, only used by special forces
Heckler & Koch MP7—4.6 mm x 30 submachine gun, replacing the MP2
MP2—9 x 19 mm submachine gun
Heckler & Koch MP5—9 x 19 mm submachine gun, used by various units
Heckler & Koch P8—9 x 19 mm pistol
G22—7.62 mm x 66.5B sniper rifle
G24—sniper rifle, only used by special forces
G82—sniper rifle
HK MSG3—7.62 mm x 51 sniper rifle
Dynamit Nobel Panzerfaust 3—anti-tank rocket launcher
Raytheon Fliegerfaust 2 (FIM-92 Stinger)—infrared homing surface-to-air missile
MILAN—anti-tank guided missile system
Granatpistole 40mm—grenade launcher
HK GMG—grenade autocannon
AG36—grenade launcher
KM2000—172 mm tantō style blade standard combat knife


Armor Equipment

Leopard 2A5 & A6 (Main Battle Tank)
Marder 1 A3/A5 (infantry fighting vehicle)
Puma (IFV) (infantry fighting vehicle), replaces the Marder in the Mechanized Infantry
Wiesel 1/2 (light air-transportable tracked multirole vehicle)
M113 A2 (multirole armoured vehicle), being phased out
GTK Boxer (multirole armoured vehicle), replaces M113 and Fuchs
Dingo 1/2 (armoured wheeled vehicle)
Eagle IV (armoured wheeled vehicle), to be delivered from 2008 on
Grizzly (armoured wheeled vehicle)
AGF Serval (Light infantry vehicle)
YAK (Duro III) (armoured wheeled vehicle)
Mungo ESK (armoured transport vehicle)
Fuchs 1/2 (multirole armoured vehicle)
BV 206 S (tracked armoured transport vehicle)
Leopard 3 (Under development)

Air Wing Equipment

UH-1 Iroquois
Bölkow Bo 105
Eurocopter EC 135
Eurocopter Tiger
NHI NH90
Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion

Support Equipment

M270 MLRS (227 mm multiple rocket launcher)
PzH 2000 (155 mm self-propelled howitzer), replacing M109
ABRA (artillery radar system), being phased out
Mortar TAMPELLA (120 mm)
Mortar "R" (120 mm)
COBRA (artillery radar system)
ATMAS (artillery weather measure system)
SMA (artillery sound measure system)

Navy

Active Forces: 331,991
Reserve Forces: 129,251

Naval Ships

Aircraft Carriers
Merkel Class Carrier (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_aircraft_carrier_Charles_de_Gaulle) (1 in Service)
Baden Class Carrier (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_French_aircraft_carrier) (Under Construction)

Destroyers

28 destroyers of various kinds

Frigates
42 Frigates of various kinds

Other vessels
2 amphibious assault ships of the The Mistral type
3 Landing Platform Dock of the Foudre type and Bougainville type
14 corvettes
4 ballistic missile submarines
6 nuclear attack submarines
4 coastal submarines
6 multi-purpose submarines

Aircraft
Reserved

Air Force

Active Forces: 201,317
Reserve Forces: 51,662
Aérospatiale SA 330 Puma
Airbus A310
Airbus A319
Airbus A340
Airbus A400
Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker
Boeing E-3 Sentry
Bombardier Challenger 600
CASA CN-235
Cessna T-37 Tweet
CN-235-200M
Dassault Falcon 50
Dassault Falcon 900
Dassault Mirage 2000
Dassault Mirage F1
Dassault Rafale
Dassault-Breguet/Dornier Alpha Jet
de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter
Embraer EMB 121 Xingu
Embraer EMB 312 Tucano
Eurocopter AS 532 Cougar
Eurocopter AS 355 Ecureuil
Eurocopter AS 555 Fennec
Eurofighter Typhoon
EuroHawk
Global Express 5000
Grob G120
Jodel D-140
Lockheed C-130 Hercules
NHI NH90
Northrop T-38 Talon
McDonnell-Douglas F-4 Phantom II
Mudry CAP 10
Socata TB
Socata TBM
Transall C-160
UH-1 Iroquois

Diplomacy

Status Bar
Allied
Friendly
Calm
Neutral
Wary
Hostile
Enemey

Embassies Overseas

Miami, The American Federated Republic

Embassies in the Dominion

Berlin, The American Federated Republic

Current Relations

American Federated Republic
Russian Federation
United Kingdom
Northern Kingdom of Scandanavia
Mediterranean Alliance
Grand Mongolian Empire
Kulikovia
South-Asian Indian Confederacy
Austrian Empire
Kansiovan Federation
Fortress State of Animarnia
Kampfers
North Atlantic Federation
Kingdom of Southern Arabia
Xaristan
United Province of Central America
Pyekan Kougu
Kenavt
Tri-Nations
Rowle
Persian Empire
Mussleburgh

Now Open for Embassies, Diplomacy, Economic Deals, etc.

The fall of the Netherlands, significant as it may have seemed in Europe, seems in East Asia to have done little to abate the Pyekan nationalist distaste for what is now the German Federal Dominion. By association, the GFD is regarded as one of the principle oppressors, and is still blamed to this day for many of the Empire's problems, especially its economic difficulties, which are explained by the Pangkai (parliament) as the result of European rape and pillage. Dissidents are still accused by the junta of being German agents, and all dissent is said to be the result of retreating colonial powers conspiring to set neighbour against neighbour, as is their style.

The Empire continues to claim the territory of the Republic of Indochina, and actually uses the fact that its former master (France) and one of Pyeki's old overlords (the Netherlands) are now united as one political entity to reinforce the view that both territories ought to have been joined on independence. No doubt the Indochinese see things rather differently, but this is simply said to be another result of the white man's policy of divide and rule in dastardly effect.

Yangon maintains a freeze on diplomatic relations with Berlin, which it says will not be lifted until the Pyekan-Kuogu receives ample compensation for centuries of theft and oppression. This is understood to be, essentially, a standing demand for hundreds of billions of dollars in aid.

The most immediate impact of Yangon's policy towards Germany -and other nations- is upon maritime and over-land trade with the likes of the Federated Straits Settlements, which is frequently hampered by the Empire's uncooperative attitude.

(You're not very friendly to anyone, eh?)

((OOC: Not as yet, no :) But we've got our reasons, damn it! You owe us for spices, timber, rubber, and trauma! To quote from The Simpsons, "Eight hundred billion dollars!" [stretches out palm]

...I wonder when this policy is going to come back on us?))

((OOC: Not as yet, no :) But we've got our reasons, damn it! You owe us for spices, timber, rubber, and trauma! To quote from The Simpsons, "Eight hundred billion dollars!" [stretches out palm]

...I wonder when this policy is going to come back on us?))

(The German Dominion will probably not pay 800 billion dollars since that is 1/7 of my GDP.)

((OOC: Heh, I don't really expect you to. It's just a way of keeping up the tension and justifying the government's attitude in the eyes of the people, along with the militarisation that is actually necessary to prevent insurrection in many regions. Worst thing that can happen is somebody pays up!))

SAAB Defense

We would like to buyout a Defense Contractor in Germany by the name of Rheinmetall. We are willing to pay upwards of $5 Billion for the company.

Respond as soon as possible.

Response

Currently, Rheinmetall is not for sale.

Wow, Greal nice histoire but...

You go back past Napolean and we can only change the last 62 years.

Wow, Greal nice histoire but...

You go back past Napolean and we can only change the last 62 years.

Yeah, but he didn't change anything from the Napoleonic Era. Everything in his history is the same until the 50s invasion of the Netherlands.

Yeah, but he didn't change anything from the Napoleonic Era. Everything in his history is the same until the 50s invasion of the Netherlands.

OOC: What do I do about the history?

OOC: What do you I should do?

Im not quite sure I follow...

OOC: What should I do about the history?

OOC: What should I do about the history?

Keep it as it is. You included history from the beginning of modern-day germany, but you only changed things past ww2, so you should be good.

Yeah, but he didn't change anything from the Napoleonic Era. Everything in his history is the same until the 50s invasion of the Netherlands.

When that post was written the end of his history said Germany was peaceful from somewhere around 1910. He editted his history so now it is fixed.

Greetings From The Peoples Republic of Mussleburgh
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We the Mussleburghian People would be willing to buy any old aircraft,ships or army weapons you have spare.
We await you response with great anticipation:
Mussleburghian Secretary General Of External Affairs
{signed}Asil (noble) Aslan (lion) {/signed}

Greetings From The Peoples Republic of Mussleburgh
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We the Mussleburghian People would be willing to buy any old aircraft,ships or army weapons you have spare.
We await you response with great anticipation:
Mussleburghian Secretary General Of External Affairs
{signed}Asil (noble) Aslan (lion) {/signed}

Official Defense Ministry Response

Germany does have Leopard 1 tanks still in storage. Do you wish to "purchase" these?

Mussleburghian Response
We would love to purchase any spare artillery,helicopters or armored vehicles you have. As for the Leopards we will have to turn down your offer. We already have an excess of Tanks.
Asil Aslan

Official Defense Ministry Response

Germany can sell your military Puma (IFV)s and Eurocopter Tigers

Official Mussleburghian Response
We are ecstatic about this new equipment. We would wish to purchase 30 Tigers and 20 Pumas. This would come to around 1 billion USD.
Asil Aslan

Official Mussleburghian Response
We are ecstatic about this new equipment. We would wish to purchase 30 Tigers and 20 Pumas. This would come to around 1 billion USD.
Asil Aslan

Delivery is confirmed, and the Pumas should arrive in a few weeks.

Delivery is confirmed, and the Pumas should arrive in a few weeks.

Official Mussleburghian Response

The money has been wired and we hope that transactions like this will occur more in the future. On a side note an extra two hundred and fifty million dollars has been wired to pay for amenities for Mussleburghian citizens in Greal. May our relations prosper.
Asil Aslan

OOC: Germans not Greal :D

OOC: Germans not Greal :D

((OCC. Sorry :) I just saw that I'm on your wary list so thought I would try to improve our relations. Me and Ka-Spel have something worked out. Please don't intervene.))

OOC: Actually it was neutral, but now its neutral