Chapter 929: Synthetic Fertilizers

Throughout the past decade, crop yields within Austria, and later the German Empire, had risen to an unimaginable degree. So much so that there was no such thing as a hungry German Family whether they live in the fatherland, or the many colonies that had popped up across the globe.

With an extensive welfare state which prioritized reintroducing workers back into employment and a robust economy founded on the gold standard. The people within the reich had almost completely neutralized homelessness and starvation from their society. 

There was such a food surplus that currently Germany was giving out massive food aid to its tributary states, who were suffering from a lack of young men to toil in the fields. This was, of course, the result of their own stupidity, forcing a war with the Reich which saw a million men from across Europe perish.