As Western Europe's richest and most populous nation, Germany remains a key member of the continent's economic, political, and defense organizations. European power struggles immersed the country in two devastating World Wars in the first half of the 20th century and left the country occupied by the victorious Allied powers of the US, UK, France, and the Soviet Union in 1945. With the advent of the Cold War, two German states were formed in 1949: the western Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the eastern German Democratic Republic (GDR). The democratic FRG embedded itself in key Western economic and security organizations, the EC and NATO, while the communist GDR was on the front line of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact. The decline of the USSR and the end of the Cold War allowed for German unification in 1990. Since then Germany has expended considerable funds to bring eastern productivity and wages up to western standards. In January 1999, Germany and 10 other EU countries intend to adopt a common European currency, the euro.
Demographic Data
Capital: Berlin
Government type: Democracy
Government stability: 93.2%
Government efficiency: 94.0%
Population's support to government: 93.2%
Area: 349,520 square kilometers
Habitable land: 81.0%
Farmable land: 34.0%
Total population: 81,337 thousands
Population's growth: 0.3%
Country's development level: 9,200
Economic Data
GNP: 1,334,600,000,000
Industralisation: 87.0%
International funding: 3,336,000,000
Political Data
Secret services efficiency: 6,292
Military Data
Technological generation: 4
Number of rebels: 406
Rebels development: 8,280
Rebels technological access: 6,439