User blog comment:TiltedFollower/Holy Roman Empire speculations.../@comment-76.17.51.191-20101029005246

here is my theory. If you look at a map of the Holy Roman Empire, you'll see that Germany is at the heart of that. So what I think is that HRE fell but was brought back or reincarnated as Germany, explaining the similarity in appearance. And the fact that Chibitalia and HRE used to live in the same house, and that germany and italy live with/near each other now further adds reasoning for my theory.

just my thoughts :)