Flag of the Mittelafrikan Reich in "What Madness Is This?" Redux: The Union Forever. The Reich is a white-supremacist offshoot of Wolfgang Kapp's Germanian Republic. During the Germanian Civil War of 1914-1920, four factions battled each other to near-extinction as Kaiserin Erika's rule shattered, her brother-in-law, the Grand Duke, attempted to usurp the throne, and Illuminist revolutionaries attempted to spread their radical ideology. In Mittelafrika, pro-Royalist colonial governor Leopold von Egk was ousted in a coup led by Reinhardt von Bachenheim, a fervent supporter of Kapp. Kapp then ordered von Bachenheim to govern Mittelafrika as a sovereign nation, leading to von Bachenheim proclaiming himself Fuhrer. The new dictator despised the native Africans and utilized some of the worst war criminals of the Great World War (1911-1916) to hold them down and force them to work on nationalized oil fields, rubber plantations, and mines.