Grossdeutschland

Greater Germany, officially the Greater German Empire (German: Grossdeutschland) is a Constitutional Monarchy situated in western-central Europe. Greater Germany is Europe's most populous and largest country, with a population exceeding 96,000,000.

Summary
Germany unified in 1858. From a heavily rural country in 1815 Germany achieved a population of 41 million people in 1871, it grew to 68 million in 1913, and 96 Million in 1940 with a increasing number of people living in Germany's major urban centers. Greater Germany is now a predominantly urban country that rapidly industrialized to become the world's leading industrial power. Greater Germany industrialized rapidly after 1850, with a strong economic foundation in coal, iron (and later steel), chemicals and railways. Greater Germany now has more then 85,000 km worth of railway tracks.

The Imperial German Navy went from having a negligible global influence to the worlds second largest navy only behind the Royal Navy in less than a decade.

During its 90 years of existence, the German Empire has managed to achieve a enviable position as the world's number one industrial, technological and scientific giant, with Germans regularly receiving more Nobel Prizes in science than Britain, France, Russia and the United States combined.

History
The German Confederation (German: Deutscher Bund) was a loose association of 39 German states in Central Europe, created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to coordinate the economies of separate German-speaking countries and to replace the former Holy German Empire. It acted as a buffer between the powerful states of Austria and Prussia, and was the as predecessor to the German Empire. During the time of Confederation German states lead largely by the progressive actions of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, and his heir King Maximilian the second of Bavaria the Confederation broke down traditional barriers to trade and a growing feeling of German nationalism, led to repeated attempts at unifying the multitude of German territories, before a single state the German Empire was created almost solely by the will of King Maximilian the second of Bavaria.

The German Confederation ended as a result of the Austro-Bavarian War of 1855 and was replaced by the largely Bavarian dominated Southern German Confederation. The majority of the Prusisan territories were added in the Prussian-Bavarian war of 1856, and During the Siege of Paris on 18 January 1858 King Maximilian II of Bavaria was crowned as Emperor of the Second German Reich.