Well, you represent yourselves well -- consider that Hive only has about 10,000 people who are its core. For being around 2.5 percent of the core population who shows up and does things that are notable, that is pretty good. And those are some considerable regions of the world also ... that's a big chunk of Europe right there, with tremendous history all around it. I almost feel like I need not tell a German, with all that history, but I will: if you think your numbers are small anywhere on Earth, you already know that you are mighty.
Now, GRANTED, I am biased: one of Germany's finest basses of slightly yesteryear has walked in on my musical life from YouTube and carried my heart back into relearning the language and the culture ... what one sees does depend a lot on what one is looking at, and how one's heart is inclined. But that is the German privilege -- outsized influence on the world, and most of the time, looked at across its long history, for good.
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!