Prussia (Napoleon's World)

The Federal Republic of East Prussia, known in native German as Ostpreussen, is a client state of the French Empire. Although ruled by the Wiedsmark dynasty since the fall of "Old Prussia" in 1813, the country was not formally recognized until the Salzburg Conference in 1948, the same one which created the autonomous states of Rome (aka Papal States) and Castille, out of prior client states of the French Empire. The primary language of East Prussia is German, although many Polish speakers live within its borders, and the Lithuanian minority is strong in the east. The capital is Konigsberg, where the President of East Prussia, the Chancellor and the Federal Bundestag, a Prussian Congress of sorts, meet.

Wiedsmark Era
After Napoleon absorbed Old Prussia into the Confederacy of the Rhine as per the Treaty of Danzig and his crowning himself the Duke of Germany, the eastern portion of Prussia broke off from its western, now conquered neighbor. General Wilhelm von Wiedsmark led a daring army known as the "Daring Souls" on a brief campaign in eastern Prussia, defeating a small French-Russian force at Oblen before laying siege to Konisgberg. Coming off the defeat at Dreisen and their new inclusion as a member-state of the French Empire, the demoralized Prussian army began to move towards Konigsberg.

The British attempted a landing at Danzig to assist the Prussian resistance, but Napoleon and an army of Danes swiftly defeating the British army in Prussia, paving the way for Denmark's invasion of southern Sweden. Ostpreussen was, for now, on its own.

Napoleon realized that he needed to return his attention towards the encroaching British presence in Italy and continue his Purge of Russia, so he brokered a peace agreement with Wiedsmark and allowed Konigsberg to stand alone as an independent city-state. Over time, the East Prussian army moved into large swaths of land in Poland and Lithuania, reclaiming a narrow strip of territory along the Baltic coast.

Napoleon would never turn his attention towards East Prussia again, and the Wiedsmark family ruled their fledgling fief - which was poor, denied aid by Napoleon and barely recognized by the outside world - for the next fifty years. In 1865, Rudolf von Wiedsmark abdicated his title as Steward of Konigsberg, and a bloody civil war followed. The infighting in Prussia finally led to the formation of a republic, one operating within the French Empire, which had by this point reoccupied East Prussia, even to the point where the Grand Army operated a major base out of central Konigsberg.