Second Finnish Empire

The Second Finnish Empire was a major Finnish empire of the post-solar flare era, and the second of four incarnations of the Finnish Empire. It held territories spanning across Northern Europe and Eastern Europe, Quebec, Somalia, part of Australia, most of India, and parts of Indochina. During its short existence, it was one of the strongest nations in the world. Although it had a sudden and rapid territorial expansion in first few years, its massive overextension quickly resulted in its downfall at the hands of its unruly Russian territories. From those territories, the Russian State would emerge. Their last monarch was executed by Russian nationalists.
== History of the Second Finnish Empire ==
=== Founding ===
The Second Finnish Empire was born when Kyrylo Ruslanovich, a descendant of the House of Ruslanovich who had previously ruled Finland, betrayed the Ottoman Empire during the final stages of their war against Benelux and defeated them in the Battle of the Rhine. This victory ultimately secured Finland's revival, as he marched across northern Europe and reconquered the original capital. It also led to the rapid collapse of the Ottomans as a major power.
=== Colonizations ===
After securing its independence, Finland began a dramatic expansion across the whole world once more, first conquering Somalia, then the Indian warlords, Burma, Malaysia, most of the Indonesian Archipelago, and northern Australia. Afterwards, all of Eastern Europe would be conquered, and placed under the control of a puppet state. During their conquest of Indonesia, they got into a dispute with South Africa, which they ultimately won, allowing them to gain Borneo. Finland's conquests drastically changed the world, but they would ultimately prove to be the downfall of the empire, as they had expanded far too quickly in such a short time.
=== Death of the Second Empire ===
The downfall of the Second Empire was mainly caused by their territories conquered in Eastern Europe. As Finland expanded into these territories, they were not able to consolidate them, and ethnic tensions began to rise, mainly between the Russian population and the other ethnicities. After Emperor Mikael took the throne, he attempted to solve the issue by creating a new autonomous Russian kingdom, known as the "Kingdom of Rus". However, this backfired, and ended up giving rise to a wave of Russian ultranationalism, and eventually the creation of the All-Russian Party, who would eventually destroy Finland.
The All-Russians were eventually able to overthrow and kill the king of the Kingdom of Rus, capture and execute Mikael, and ultimately cause the total disintegration of the Second Finnish Empire. During the chaos, members of the House of Ruslanovich ended up fleeing all the way to Iceland to escape the destruction of the empire.
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