Kashubia and Pomerania

Kashubia and Pomerania, properly known as the Republic of Kaschubien-Pommern, is a country in Central Europe, located on the coast of the Baltic Sea. It borders Germany to the southwest, and Poland to the southeast. The nation's cultural capital is Stettin, while the seat of government and proclaimed capital is Stralsund.

Geography
The Republic of Kashubia and Pomerania's borders are along thes Bay of Pomerania in the Baltic Sea, with its eastern border on the Vistula River, while its western border is along by the Recknitz river.

Most of the region is a coastal plain, however, some of the region, mainly in the south, is very hilly. This hilly area is also very plentiful of lakes.

History
The region now known as Kashubia and Pomerania was originally inhabited by Slavic tribesmen, then eventually came under the rule of the Polish. The Holy Roman Empire took over the region a couple centuries later, and most of the area became a Duchy under the Griffin dynasty.

When the Protestant Reformation happened, the Duchy adopted the Lutheran faith, however, most of the Kashubian and Pomerelian population stayed with Roman Catholicism.

Parts of the region became under the Swedish crown, however the Prussian monarchy took over the region in various wars, until finally annexing it completely during the Congress of Vienna. The region then finally became part of the German Empire once it was officially created in 1871.

However, after the German defeat in the first World War, during the Treaty of Versailles, it was dictated that the region be released as an independent state. As it had not been independent since the 1600's, the nation very much struggled through the 1920's and early to mid 1930's, when the nation was annexed by the new Third Reich following a National Socialist coup of the government.

When the Third Reich took over the region, most of the populous were cheerful. Citizens took to the streets to celebrate the new regime. When the Third Reich surrendered in 1945, the region was left alone for a couple years in much disorganization, until it eventually became part of East Germany.

When the Berlin Wall fell and the Communist government of East Germany began to crumble, the area declared independence once again as the Republic of Kaschubien-Pommern. It remains a nation to this day, running on a similar system to the Federal Republic of Germany.

Demographics
The Republic of Kaschubien-Pommern has about 1 million people living inside its borders, with around 990,000 people counted in 2012. The largest city in the nation, Stettin, has a little over 400,000 people living in it, while the second largest, Stralsund-Greifswald, has 113,000.

Most of the nation is inhabited by Germans, who mainly speak Standard German, while some Germans in the nation speak East Low German Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch and Central Pomeranian. The far east of the nation, on the other hand, is made up of many Polish and Kashubians, who speak their respective languages.