America waits till Germany is about to fall over from sustained punching from Britain and France, then walks over and smashes it with a barstool, then pretends it won the fight all by itself.
And it suited Britain and France to have a new, neutral state rather than a source of instability that might, so soon after the Napoleonic wars, set off more turbulence in Europe.
The students are divided into four nations according to language or regional origin: France, Normandy, Picardy and England, the last was renamed "German nation" after the Hundred Years' War.