Alternative History
Federal Republic of Germany
Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Timeline: It Will Still Burn On
OTL equivalent: Germany
Flag of Germany Coat of arms of Germany
Flag Coat of arms
EU-Germany (including UK)
Location of Germany (dark green)
– in Europe (light green & dark grey)
– in the European Union (green)
Capital
(and largest city)
Berlin
Official languages German
Demonym German
Government Federal parliamentary republic
 -  President Max Otte
 -  Chancellor Sabine Verheyen
Legislature Bundestag
Bundesrat
Establishment
 -  Unification 18 January 1871 
 -  Monarchy abolished 9 November 1918 
 -  Nazi Germany 23 March 1933 
 -  West–East division 23 May 1949 
 -  Reunification 3 October 1990 
Population
 -  2022 estimate 83,190,556 
Calling code +49

Germany (German: Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a country located in Central Europe. It borders Poland and the Czech Republic to the east; Austria and Switzerland to the south; France, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands to the west; and Denmark to the north. The nation's capital and largest city is Berlin, and its financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr.

Various Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical antiquity. A region named Germania was documented before AD 100. In the 10th century, German territories formed a central part of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th century, northern German regions became the centre of the Protestant Reformation. During the Napoleonic Wars, Napoleon invaded the Holy Roman Empire and established the Confederation of the Rhine and several other puppet states, although they would initially collapse after Napoleon's loss. However, the idea of German unity arose, and after two confederations and wars with Austria and France, the German Empire was formed in 1871.

After colonial expansions in the late 19th century, it was thrown against the Allied powers in World War I, and ultimately lost, resulting in the foundation of a republic. In the 1920s, a financial crisis struck the country, and only worsened with the Great Depression in the early 1930s. Ultimately, the dissatisfaction with the government lead to the rise of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party, indirectly leading to World War II in 1939 when the Nazi regime invaded Poland to get old lands back, and to begin the major extermination of Jews. After the war, Germany was divided into occupation zones, then divided into West Germany and East Germany until it was reunified in 1990.

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Post-reunification era (1990-2000)[]

Further intergration with Europe (2000-2014)[]

Rivalry with Russia (2014-present)[]