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Okay, so this idea came to me because of a comic on /r/PolandBall and a flag on /r/Vexillology awhile back:

[comic removed because it contained a racial slur]
Here's a transcript of the important bits:
Title: Countryballs in a Parallel Universe
Switzerland: Switzerland
- Participated in every single world war
- Lots of debts
- Hates any kind of precision


The flag was supposed to be Germany in the style of Germany, not Germany if it was unified by Switzerland, but I thought the idea of Switzerland unifying Germany was pretty cool. This idea coagulated with the comic I'd seen earlier, the realization that the flag actually looked pretty authoritarian due to its color scheme and design (it'd be even better if it was an iron cross, but whatever), and the fact that Swiss mercenaries used to renowned for their military prowess.

Anyways, needless to say, the rest of the comic isn't really going to figure in, but the part about Switzerland being much more violent and much less neutral than OTL is gonna figure in pretty heavily, and possibly the debts as well.

The TL's probably going to have to start pretty early, but here's the stuff I wanna do with it:

- Swiss Neutrality is never a thing. Outright. Switzerland isn't as militaristic as Prussia, but it's much more involved in the rest of the world's affairs, especially the affairs of Germany.
- Switzerland ends up unifying Germany. Of course. That's kinda the point of the TL.
- Germany's even more unstable than OTL and militarism ramps up in Germany.
- Germany has some France-level revolutions and regime changes, and a bunch of authoritarian regimes, and also gets involved in more wars than it does in OTL. No surrender-monkeying though.
- The TL in general is pretty dystopian, but not nearly on a For All Time level...

What would be a good POD for this TL? Any recommendations for it? Is this even possible, or is it ASB?

P.S. If you're waiting on the next chapter of "...And Our War is Never Won...", don't worry! I'm currently writing it!

EDIT: Just realized there's a racial slur in the comic. I don't want to remove the comic cos it's kinda important for context but I can't figure out how to censor it. Please don't ban me...
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