Geez, there I'm gone for two days, and discussions in this topic start to heat up.
darthbalmung: What language are you playing Hearts of Iron in? Kaiserreich only supports the English langiage, if you play in french, German etc the original countrynames show up. You can switch the game language in the settings.cgf file in your Doomsday folder.
Augustus Caesar: The Germans took pretty much took everything they wanted from the French (Madagascar, Indochina, Morroco Djibouti etc.) and left what they did not want in french hands, mainly the areas of northwest Africa. The current German colonial holdings in Africa are pretty similar to the OTL German war aims (see the Mittelafrika article in Wikipedia).
Lordinsane: If you like, you can read the backstory of the Kaiserreich naval war in our forums, it explains the conflict between the Hochseeflotte and Royal navy pretty well.
Basically, it was not the failure of the Royal Navy per se that enabled the Germans to gain the british african and pacific colonies, but the British revolution and the following split of the royal navy. In the Kaiserreich timeline, the royal navy was never defeated, and Germany and Britain signed a 'peace with honour'.
'Delex' We do have a tag for a neutral France, but unfortunately the event was bugged in the last version. It should work in the new version we're working on. I'll have a look into the change of territories you suggested.
As for the French- German war discussion, I must admit it is a part of Kaiserreich that is not completely finished yet. As Zauberfloete explained, Germany is supposed to be weakened by internal unrest, the economic crisis, and the crumbling of it's empire. But there's still a lot of work to be done.
Beta IV should be released in a few weeks, adding various new eventchains for east Asia, America, Africa, and east Europe. After that, planning for Beta V(?) will start, for which we can hopefully work out more German domestic events, enlargement of the Internationale events, and the second Weltkrieg. (This is rough planning, no gurantees any of this will happen.)
Anybody who would like to contribute is more than welcome to do so. Either here in this topic, in in our Kaiserforums.