to date, the federal republic of germany (this is the official name of the state) is one of the most developed economies in the world, and its internal political structure is a model of parliamentary democracy and an effective distribution of powers between the center and the subjects of the federation. the latter include the federal states of baden-württemberg, bavaria, brandenburg, the free hanseatic city of bremen, the free hanseatic city of hamburg, mecklenburg-vorpommern, lower saxony, north rhine-westphalia, rhineland-palatinate, saar, the free state of saxony, saxony-anhalt, schleswig-holstein, the free state of thuringia. the status of the federal state is also the capital of germany – the city of berlin.
