Yes, Germany has a long history. I actually live just 25km from the place where Germany was founded. But very few people, even in Germany, know this place.
Even my village is older than the USA. 😇
Politically speaking, we currently only have seemingly incompetent politicians in power. The German people are very dissatisfied, as they always have been.
I was recently reading of the Emperor Heinrich -- met him in Löwe's beautiful song "Heinrich der Vogler" (see, Kurt Möll, Hans Hotter, Gottlob Frick, and Matthias Goerne can have me learning about anything), looked him up and realized, "Wow!" It is a long and fascinating history, overall!