Austria (Isolated US)

Austria, officially the German Kingdom of Austria, is a constituent kingdom of the German empire. It is ruled by a collection of bureaucrats and elected officials with its Kaiser reigning as the official head of state. It gained independence from the collapsing Austro-Hungarian empire and was admitted into the greater German empire. Although it is mainly filled with germans, it has a distinct cultural identity than the mainland. Its monarch is descended from the Hapsburg dynasty as opposed to the Capetian dynasty of the Kaiser. After its admittance to the greater German empire, the Hapsburg monarch married into the Capetian family.

Dissolution of Austria-Hungary
On October 31, 1918, one year after the ceasefire of the great war, the Kingdom of Hungary, experiencing nationalist riots and invasion from czechoslovak rebels, terminated its union with Austria. The Austro-Hungarian mass mutinied and formed roving gangs and bandit states in the former empire. Czechoslovak rebels form their own state and conquer areas of the german inhabited Sudetenland. Several Austrian warlord states are established in the areas in Austria, with most warlords claiming to be heirs to the Hapsburg throne. Eventually, one warlord who called himself Franz Hapsburg III, rose to prominence as the "mayor" of vienna and surrounding areas. He was overthrown in a revolution which established a Menshevik socialist republic.

German Intervention
On January 3, 1919, German forces invaded Austria to take down the socialist republic and replace it with a pro-german one. They reinstalled Franz Hapsburg III as Kaiser of Austria and had him marry Wilhelm's grandniece. Austria was then given a new flag and submitted into the Greater German Empire.