Fourth Reich

Creation
At the turn of the century, just a few years after the re-unification of Germany, the economy crashed. Many historians concluded that merging a communist nation with a succesful capitalist republic was not a very good idea. The currency inflated one year at about 700% then deflated at -65% the next. The country fell into a deep depression, suicide rates sky-rocketed, riots and rebellions broke out. As all this was happening, a grandfather in Koningsberg (Exclave of Russia Bordering Poland and the baltic countries) told his son of a time when Germany was an empire, a wealthy and powerful empire. Klaus Schulze felt nostalgic of those times, even though he wasn't alive then (he was 22 at the time of the story telling) and vowed to somehow return Germany to that state, out of the economic and social mess it was now. A year later, in 2001, Klaus traveled to what was left of Berlin and started giving a speech in the ruined train station, after about half an hour, he had a large crowd and swayed them with messages of hope and change. In the 2002 election, Klaus ran as an underdog independant, but won over 60% of the vote, enough to make him president. After his election, he quickly put the military into action and directly commanded his armies day and night to repress the people who were still rioting and rebelling. After a country-wide war that lasted 7 months, in December 2002, Schulze declared a new, better, and truly unified Germany.