The Rhine

The Rhineland (German: Die Rheinlande) (French: La Rhénanie) (Italian: La Renania) is a state in western Europe. Currently headed by Paul Tirard, chairman of The Rhine. The Rhine is bordered to the north by the Dutch State; to the west by Belgium and Luxembourg; to southwest by the French Republic; and to the east by Germany.

It wouldn’t be correct to classify the Rhine as a nation, at least not in the traditional sense. The Rhine was formed from the allied occupation of the Rhineland and remains as an inter-allied mandate run by Paul Tirard.

History
After the Great War the Entente powers jointly occupied the Rhine, this occupation, done primarily by the French, was overseen by the Interallied High Commission of Paul Tirard. The Rhine was formally part of Germany until the 1933 Valkist coup, when a parallel coup occured in the Rhine by Hans Adam Dorten and Josef Friedreich Matthes. The coup itself failed, but the Rhenish government decided to use to opportunity to put down socialist rebels. The formation of a Rhenish republic was to occur at an unspecified date, and Hans Adam Dorten’s Rhenish Freikorps, a Rhenish nationalist paramilitary based on the German Freikorps who put down the Spartacists, were utilized to crush the rebels. A Rhenish republic has still yet to be finalised as the outcry for independence from the mandate increases.