Some German puppets have Germanised names as Vaximilian already mentioned. Mittelafrika and AlgOstAsien for example.
Mittelafrika is a colonial state with no regard to the local african population.
That's totally different from a European puppet state with a native leadership.
And AlgOstAsian Gmbh is a corporate name. This reflects and abstraction in the game to show how independent this corporation is in the territory it controls. De Jure the land still belongs to the Qing.
It's just like portraying the Warlords as independent nations in vanilla.
What about renaming Germany into German Empire? This nation is meant only as empire. This would mean also Communist and Republican minister cabinets could be removed and used for other German states. German Empire cannot get communist or republican since the flag would have to be changed with political changes.
Nonsense.
Germany doesn't start as an absolute monarchy and has a parliament and voting. (tough probably still wealth based)
The Weimar Republic was also named German Empire and the reason for the flagg change was the way it came to be: Out of defeat and revolution rather than gradual reform.
In the mod Germany already has the option to democratize further, limiting the interventions of the Kaiser (=gradual reform) and turn into a more constitutional monarch with the Kaiser little more than a figurehead. Under such circumstances no flag change (as a lot of democrats preferred the Imperial one as well) would be required.
(except for a communist state But this is true for all countries
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France could also have an option to release united German state if it's victorious, something like DDR, if player wouldn't like to split Germany between Bavaria, Prussia and Rheinland.
True, but this needs to be balanced.
The new state should be massivly federalized, with a very weak central government (as the French would probably not accept anything else) which would be represented with an event that gives big -industrial_modifier and -manpower_modifier so as to get a united but weakened state.
Also the option to release Rhineland and occupy the rest plainly doesn't make sense.
It would be more logical for the French to occupy the Rhineland and release the other 3 states, yet such an option doesn't exist.
You're right here. But we're talking about a 'French state' set up by Germans if they conquer France. I've just translated the name into German, similar to 'real' name of the country in German - Frankreich - and accidentally got some allusions on Frankish empire and Charlemagne.
Frankreich is the totally neutral name of France in German, independent of the political setup.
Nobody would get the idea to change it into anything else, or force the French to use this German name as the official one.
UPD: and if Germans create a puppet 'French state', wouldn't they include it into the German realm as a minor French realm?
No, the other German realms simply reflect the federal structure of Germany, just like the US are pretty federalized. (both in comparison to centralist states likes France)
A totally different Nation like the French would either need to get some sort of puppet state or be military occupied.