Germany :)

•Country Name: Germany, officially it’s the Federal Republic of Germany. In German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland

•Year Founded: The Holy Roman Empire founded Germany in 962. Following the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Congress of Vienna convened in 1814 and founded the German Confederation (Deutscher Bund), a loose league of 39 sovereign states. Germany was first unified as a nation-state amidst the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, with the German Empire. By 23 May 1949 it was a Federal Republic and its reunification (East and West) happened the 3rd of October of 1990

•Population: 82,329,758 (July 2009 estimated). It’s the most populous country in the European Union.

•Primary Language: German is the official and predominantly spoken language in Germany. Some recognized native minority languages are Danish, Sorbian, Romany, and Frisian.

•Ethnic Make-up: The people in Germany are 91.5% German, 2.4% Turkish, and other 6.1% made up largely by Greek, Italian, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, and Spanish.

•Political System: Germany's political system operates under a framework created in the West German Constitution of 1949. With the re-unification of the country in 1990, five newly-created East German states joined the Federal Republic (West) in accordance with Article 23 of the West German Constitution. Germany is considered a federal parliamentary representative democratic republic, with the seat of government centered in the capital city, Berlin.

•Year Entered the European Union: When Germany was still divided into West and East, West Germany was a founding member of the European Community in 1957, which became the European Union in 1993.

•Representative of the European Union (include party)

•Type of Economy: Germany's affluent and technologically powerful economy - the fifth largest in the world in PPP terms - showed considerable improvement in 2007 with 2.6% growth. Among the most important reasons for Germany's high unemployment during the past decade were macroeconomic stagnation, the declining level of investment in plant and equipment, company restructuring, flat domestic consumption, structural rigidities in the labor market, lack of competition in the service sector, and high interest rates.

•Currency: euro

•Current Exchange rate for American Currency: Euro, 1 Dollar is 1.58 Euro.

•GDP (All 2008 estimated)
-Purchasing power parity $2.863 trillion
-Official exchange rate $3.818 trillion
-Real growth rate 1.7%
-Per capita $34,800
-Composition by sector: agriculture 0.9%, industry 30.1%, services 69%

•Percentage of Trade within the European Union

•Unemployment Rate: 7.9%

•Chief Exports: exports: $1.53 trillion f.o.b. (2008 est.) machinery, vehicles, chemicals, metals and manufactures, foodstuffs, textiles. Export partners:
France 9.7%, US 7.5%, UK 7.3%, Italy 6.7%, Netherlands 6.4%, Austria 5.4%, Belgium 5.3%, Spain 5% (2007)

•Key Imports: $1.202 trillion f.o.b. (2008 est.) Import commodities: machinery, vehicles, chemicals, foodstuffs, textiles, metals. Import partners: Netherlands 12%, France 8.6%, Belgium 7.8%, China 6.2%, Italy 5.8%, UK 5.6%, US 4.5%, Austria 4.4% (2007)

•Major Religions: Christianity is the most practiced religion, with 53 million people (64%). The second one is Islam with 3.3 million people (4%), followed by Buddhism and Judaism, both with around 200,000 people (0.25%). Hinduism has some 90,000 adherents (0.1%). All other religious communities in Germany have fewer than 50,000 (or less than 0.05%) adherents. Protestantism is concentrated in the north and east and Roman Catholicism is concentrated in the south and west. Each denomination comprises about 31% of the population.

•Surrounding Countries: It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

•Literacy Rate: Age 15 and over can read and write. The total population would be: 99%, both male and female.

•One Interesting Fact: German people are the second biggest consumers of beer in the world (after the Irish), with an average of 119 liters per person per year (or 0.32 liters per day).