Franco-German Earth

Franco-German Earth is a parallel-universe version of Earth in which the Franco-German Empire is the preeeminent superpower. In 1871 A.D., France and Germany were merged into the Franco-German Empire with a constitutional monarch, an elected central parliament, and France and the German states retaining some local autonomy under a federal system. This was a result of the German state of Prussia defeating France the prior year in the Franco-Prussian War.

In the decade of the 1890s, the Austrian-Hungarian Empire suffered aemed revolts which saw the creation of independent Czechslovakian and Yugoslavian states, and ethnic conflicts between Austrians and Hungarians. By the year 1900, Hungary also became independent and Austria was absorbed into the Franco-German Empire as a constituent state.

In the Franco-Germano-Spanish War of 1902-1906, Spain, too, became a state within the Franco-German Empire.