re: #180 Bert’s House of Beef and Obdicuts

“individualistic” is a weird word, and I’m not at all sure what you mean by it, especially when we’re talking about a group attribute.

I am talking about pre-Roman Germanic culture with no large cities or central authority at all, just small, generally autonomous settlements.

Look at the entirely decentral nature of the HRE, hundreds of semi-autonomous states and city-states.

And remember, it took Germany until 1871 to finally unite as a nation, and then only after they were more or less conquered and forcibly united under Prussian hegemony.