OOC: I've always wanted to play modernday Finland in a NES! But would it be possible to make my government like a constitutional monarchy or something, I mean, maybe in a story or so.. maybe by a rebellion? I would really like to add the Finnish political parties into my future stories
Anyway, I hope it's okay that I changed the leader name from "Paul" to "Pauli", it sounds more like a Finnish name.. nice surname for the leader, by the way, that really does sound a little bit Finnish
das said:
Finland
Capital: Helsinki
Ruler: Pauli Vakkapuli
Government: Absolute Monarchy
Tech. Level: Early Modern Age
Army: 15 divisions
Navy: 5 task forces
Air Force: 2 air wings
Economy: Normal
Education: Well Educated
Culture: Patriotic
Projects:
Nation Background: After two months of anarchy in Russia in 1897 following the defeat in WWI, Finnish separatists decided to act. They managed to gain independence, under a king of local descent, and the new Russian Republic decided to let them go, not wanting to start a war so soon after the end of the last one.
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STORY (and some national background):
Looking at Finland from the outside, everything seemed to be fine in 1901: the country had gotten it's independence from Russia. But when you got to see things as closely as Per Evind Svinhufvud did, you would notice that domestically Finland was far away from being united.
The last 5 years had been filled with changes for Per Evind Svinhufvud. Finland had had a position as Russia's home-ruled grand duchy until 1896. The Finnish parliament, which had been established only one year before to work in cooperation with the Russian Czar, was dissolved. Reasons for this were Russian fears of Finland not cooperating with their mother country during times of war; "russification" was the name for this project to set the Finns straight. The dissolving of the parliament pissed off especially the social-democrats, who had held 103 seats out of the 200-seated parliament. But the conservatives were angry too, wanting to get back Finland's autonomic position. Per Evind Svinhufvud was one of the first conservatives to become a separatist, and he was sent to a Siberian prison for one year.
Then the year 1897 came, and in just two months Finnish separatists removed Finland from Russia's control - taking eastern Karelia and the Kolan peninsula with them. Svinhufvud was freed from the Siberian prison, and he took a train back home. While he was sitting on that train, the social-democrats decided to seize the moment and capture the power of the new country that had been independent only for a couble of days. That was quite natural, since everything was indicating that they wouldn't get back their 103 parliamentary seats - i.e. full legislative power - which they believed was rightfully theirs. The attempt failed miserably.
When Svinhufvud got to Helsinki, he was greeted as a national hero; people cheered when he stepped down from the train. He had been imprisoned for year for his country, and now he became the leading conservative for that. He, as all other conservatives, was afraid of social-democrats and didn't support returning to democratic parliamentarism, since that would propably give the power back to the leftists. The conservatives got their will through and an Absolute Monarchy was established. The new king Pauli Vakkapuli immediately gave a high position to Svinhufvud as his trusted man and suddenly this simple small-city lawyer found himself at the peak of power; as a friend of the king.
Indeed, everything seemed to be fine for Svinhufvud in 1901 when he was sitting in his big office in Helsinki, planning ways to run the country together with the king who now greatly trusted him, but he did have worries. The social-democrat leaders had escaped from prison, and Väinö Tanner, their infamous leader, had been rumoured to be planning a coup to get Finland back to democratic ways. As if that wasn't bad enough, all the recent polls were indicating that a vast majority of Finns would actually vote for social-democrats if there had been a parliament in Finland. And as if that wasn't bad enough, many of the social-democrats were beginning to worship the newly-established German communist system, since parliamentarism hadn't brought them the power which they would deserve.
Would the social-democrats get their will through, with the help of their legendary leader Väinö Tanner who was now hiding? Or would the absolute monarchy stand the test of time? Only time would tell..
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ORDERS:
-grow education
-grow army
-hunt down evil social-democratic leaders who escaped from prison (see story

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