Archie Bunker.

Yes one of the oldest countries with the same frame. I suppose England is older and possibly Switzerland. But even China is older but they abolished the idea of emperors and are now Communists.

So unified Germany younger than the United States.

In antiquity, the Romans could not subdue the Germanic tribes. In fact, Unified Germany is only 150 years old. 1870 to be precise and during the cold war it was divided again. So carve out 50 years from that so Germany has only been unified for 100 years.

Germany was a collective of states unified by language. Italy was a collective of city states gathered up under Roman authority.