I know that there are corporations in the Bundestag. That makes it even more suspicious, doesn't it?
Well, I guess I have as well developed humor as your average German then.
Maybe someone else is going to step in and educate me about the actual vanilla lore.
Edit: ok, we're counting SP campaign battleships then. Where did all of those ships go after the end of the SP campaign? Indeed, that's the thing with Rheinland. You're advocating the campaign version and I'm supporting the version we see after completing the campaign.