I grew up in a small town of around 1.5 - 2 thousand people. There was only one high school on our end of the county, so kids from all the towns got cram packed into one school.
Suffice it to say, everyone knew everyone. It seemed like the cliques were a little more loosely defined, it was really just if you partied vs. if you didn't. It was a fun time in that regard. I introduced all my friends to weed and drifted in and out of different cliques and party scenes. I do miss those days truly.
our cliques
are the different villages

many just went to school in the same town
It's like village A hates village B, village C hates village A, village D hates village C, and so on
All the villages only have like 800 people or less, but they all do their own Schützenparade n shit
where they run through the villages all gangster with their horses and carriages, special lederhosen and hunting rifles
super elitist cliques, and they are completely racist towards all other villages :D because they talk a little different, and wear different kinds of lederhosen or hats (true story), even if they tolerate each other
For this you gotta understand that say if a village is 3-4 miles from here, I will have issues understanding them. We all speak quite different from each other, and have different festivals, different pagan traditions, another history, different songs, etc pp. Many villages are a 1000 years old, some even older than that.
Gods, I hate those parades. They're super early like 7 in the morning or earlier, usually on a sunday, FUCKING loud marching band or even 2 marching bands because it's a column of the entire damned village, shooting blanks in the air until like 12
After that the entire village is full of horseshit, "cultured" Europe my ass. When Napoleon took Munich, we Bavarians took our spite and shat on the Plaza where he would enter the town, and flooded the entire gate with excrements of different variety so that Napoleon said that the Bavarians where the most disgusting people he had ever encountered.