Just in the middle of Europe, This is Germany. In the South: Austria. The two countries share multitude of cultural similarities. Both speak the same language and almost have identical laws.
Austria and Germany were once the same country way back. A thousand years ago, all these territories were United as the kingdom of Germany. The kingdom was part of the Holy Roman Empire and consisted of many small tribes and nations. As the Empire caved in around 1800s. The German people were scattered in dozens of smaller states all over central Europe. The Austria Empire was one of them and took the leading role of reuniting all the Germans. All state leaders came together in Vienna and finally came up with a united idea of forming an alliance, The Germany Confederation. It was a powerful alliance were important laws were decided together and they were to be superior to the laws of the states with Austria leading the way.
Today, Germans are Germans and Austrians are Austrians.

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