Empire of the German Nation

-Archduchy of Austria in personal union with Kingdom of Bohemia

-governed over mediatization of 1804 where French Republic compensated rulers of left bank of rhine by doing away with all the archduchies except aschaffenburg

-and so French Wars > First French War (1792-1804) comes to an end

-domestic policy very autocratic, metternich is the man

-faced with much less of hre in alignment with him (though prussia pushed to edge, bavaria westphalia and two hesses broadly french-aligned)

-attempts an empire-wide concordat with catholic church, but only small states sign on, most instead do their own concordats

-in 1819 elector of bavaria dies, results in end of montgelas' modernizing absolutist regime, state breaking its alignment with france and instead making it with austria

-in the end, europe comes to French Wars > Second French War (1821-32) following neapolitan revolution in 1824

-successfully protects papacy by invading latium and making it rump papal state

-Francis II's eldest son widely regarded as a dumbass, and so francis ii unable to get him elected as king of the romans, thus interregnum is result

-eventually, however able to get electors to agree on down the line (also eldest son abdicates archduchy and other titles)

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-Joseph III's fictional son, turns out to be pretty sickly well after being elected King of the Romans

-practically-speaking government is primarily managed by regency council

-Maximilian III dies childless w/o electing an heir, resulting in interregnum

-attempts to get his brother enthroned as King of Hungary

-but massive mobs block him, Hungarian republicans declare independence, resulting in French Wars > Fifth French War (1890-5)

-brother of Maximilian III, was member of regency council

-leads effort against Hungarian crisis well

-when war becomes pan-European war, he brings in Russia against it

-some talk of even abolishing the central monarchy in this period (but rejected cuz too French)

-new constitution issued, turning germany into centralized federal monarchy and democratization is now total

-electors of saxony raised in recognition of it being center of industry, and already very democratic

-fourth college of reichstag established for the people with universal male suffrage and partial female suffrage, with laws requiring assent of both fourth college and of other colleges united

-makes compromise with Kingdom of Bohemia, granting it virtual independence in personal union with austria (now King of Bohemia is the highest title of the habsburgs)