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| - The strongest power on Earth, with the mainland on three continents (Europe, North and South Atlantis) and vast areas of colonies, protectorates and satellites (most important: India, Eastern/SE Europe and sub-Saharan Africa). In practice, however, Germany's power is heavily strained, and especially the defeat in the (Civil) War against the Socialists has shown the world that the biggest beast can still bleed. The relations to its neighbors in Europe (Russia, Italy and the Socialist Block) are as bad, and the Nassauer people (refugees from Socialist Germany, mostly from Westphalia which belonged to Nassau, loudly wishing for revenge) don't make it easier. Instead of having satellites to the north and the west, as was envisioned before and during the war, the powerful Socialist Block looms
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| - The strongest power on Earth, with the mainland on three continents (Europe, North and South Atlantis) and vast areas of colonies, protectorates and satellites (most important: India, Eastern/SE Europe and sub-Saharan Africa). In practice, however, Germany's power is heavily strained, and especially the defeat in the (Civil) War against the Socialists has shown the world that the biggest beast can still bleed. The relations to its neighbors in Europe (Russia, Italy and the Socialist Block) are as bad, and the Nassauer people (refugees from Socialist Germany, mostly from Westphalia which belonged to Nassau, loudly wishing for revenge) don't make it easier. Instead of having satellites to the north and the west, as was envisioned before and during the war, the powerful Socialist Block looms over remaining Germany, and Italy and Russia stay vengeful too. Still, the German government hopes that Old Germany is guarded enough by its eastern and SE European allies and satellites. On the inside, German politicians don't really seem ready governing a superpower; in fact, they seem to spend most of their time just to hold the government together. This may be caused by the political system, which is a compromise between the three pre-war Germanies: Old Germany had a proportional representation, German Atlantis had first-past-the-post, leading to a two-party system (Freedom Party and Equality Party, as mentioned earlier), and relatively newly settled Argentinien was just developing a party system. The united Germany has two parliamentary houses, the Vereinigter Reichstag (each land - there are 12 in Europe, 60 in Atlantis and 17 in Argentinien - gets one representative for 250,000 people [578 in the election of 1920]; seats are distributed proportionally in every land) and the Länderkammer (each continent votes with the majority of its lands; decisions concerning the whole empire have to be made in unison between the three groups). Now in the 1920s, the traditional parties have often split and reformed. Multi-party coalition governments are standard, and often don't survive longer than a few months. People have the impression that after more than 100 years of democracy, the real power is in the hands of the parties' organisations instead of the people, special interest parties have a lot of influence, and corruption even within the cabinet is at high levels.
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