During the great famine of 1825, the Canadian economy was suffering from huge deprivation of Maple xylum sap. This blow was devastating to the Canadian public. There hadn't been such a shortage since the middle ages. Everyone would've had to resort to living in shanty homes out of the trees on which the syrup was extracted. (Being as they were so useless now). There would've been no syrup to mint the coins, no syrup to make the Harry Enfield rifles, and no more syrup to trade with out southern neighbor; the Mexican State of United.
Now, under normal circumstances, Canada would've gone into bankruptcy, and there would've been a strong risk of being absorbed by the northern neighbor Brazil. However, Germany had planted a secret treehouse government embassy in the highest reaches of Nunavut, and they felt pretty sympathetic towards Canada: and they offered Canada a deal.
Germany offered to supply Heißengroße syrup, which was developed from the highest grade mahogany out in the white forests, and in exchange, they wanted the territory with the highest weapons grade copper in all the country. The territory of Montréal.
Now, this was a terrible blow for Brazil. So they waged war, and by the year 1816, the whole area was ablaze with flames. The Germans who lived there said it reminded them of when the British bombed Berlin during World War Two, and that it was absolutely terrible. However, with Canada's incoming loads of syrup, they were able to fight back.
After the waffle irons have heated up, they started loading syrup into the moulds, producing shiny new strong tanks, planes, and submarines. The production lines were always blaring with activity throughout the day. Canada was considered the superpower of the entire solar system. Every single day submarines rolled into Montréal and blasted away those pesky Brazilians, and after 52 days and 49 nights of straight fighting, the Brazilians finally gave up.
There were significant losses though, many German and Canadian civilians were scared financially by being forced to live in favelas built upon the wrecks of the old rented horses that the Brazilians acquired from Russia (which at the time was known as The Republic of Sweden). The horses also served a foundation for the pipeworks, with their mouths forming perfectly watertight locks for use in faucets and toilets.
Yet in the wake, Germany and Canada ended up triumphing over the silly southern neighbors, and now after the Germans acquired Montréal, they reigned supreme over the syrup business, making billions of Euros from the finest mahogany syrups.
