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Hey folks, it's Hook again...

In a TL I'm working on for myself the Ottomans have (just barely) succeeded in taking all the European possessions they tried for in the 16th century. There's a valid explaination and it's not a wank, as their uppance is coming - they are overstretched after all; but they hold and keep southern Italy (including Rome), everything up to and including Vienna, Malta, etc.

Northernmost Germany (including the Greater Netherdlands, Hanover, Hamburg, Brandenburg, most of the Saxonies, Schleiswig-Holstein and then some, Prussia, etc.) is united by someone else rather early and after a particularly devastating analog to the Thirty Year's War (which incorporates two massive succession wars as well) the HRE finds itself with a wave of Protestants fleeing the territories, a mess of tiny holdings all loyal to the Emperor but not one another, and completely surrounded by hostile powers without a single port. It begins to federalize to unite the Germany it has left (including, for reasons I won't mention here, Switzerland).

Essentially an Austro-Bavarian dominated landlocked Germany from Switzerland in the west to OTL's Czechoslovakia in the east, some of the Saxonies in the north but not Berlin or any of Brandenburg, and all of Austria minus Vienna.

Anyway, once the country is federalized - how can it viably survive? I assume there are plenty of resources but none that surrounding nations don't already have for themselves. There are no ports so no navy either commercial or military.

So, handwaving the details as to how we got here - where do we go from here? How can my little landlocked Austro-Germania survive?

Also, any ideas for a new capital? Prague? Doesn't seem central enough...
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