Finland (Euro/America-Russia War)

The Kingdom of Finland (Finnish: Suomen kuningaskunta; Norse: Ríki til Finnland) is a Nordic country in Northern Europe and within the Greater European Reich. Lying in the Nordic Region of Greater Europe, it borders Scandinavia to the northwest and Russia to the south, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, opposite the Baltic Kingdom. Helsinki is the capital, while Vyborg is the largest city. The vast majority of the population are ethnic Finns with a Russian minority. Finnish and Nordic are the official languages. Finland's climate varies from humid continental in the south to boreal in the north. The land cover is predominantly boreal forest biome, with more than 180,000 recorded lakes.
Finland was first settled around 9000 BC after the last Ice Age. During the Stone Age, various cultures emerged, distinguished by different styles of ceramics. The Bronze Age and Iron Ages were marked by contacts with other cultures in Fennoscandia and the Baltic region. From the late 13th century, Finland became part of the Swedish Empire as a result of the Northern Crusades. In 1809, as a result of the Finnish War, Finland was captured from Sweden and became a Grand Duchy of Finland, an autonomous state ruled by the Russian Empire. During this period, Finnish art flourished and the idea of full independence began to take hold. In 1906, Finland became the first European state to grant universal suffrage, and the first in the world to give all adult citizens the right to run for public office. Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, Finland declared its full independence. In 1918 the young nation was divided by the Finnish Civil War. During World War II, Finland fought against the Soviet Union in the Winter War and the Continuation War, and later against Nazi Germany in the Lapland War. As a result, it lost parts of its territory but retained its independence.
Finland remained a largely agricultural country until the 1950s. After World War II, it industrialised quickly and established an advanced economy, with a welfare state built on the Nordic model. This allowed the country to experience overall prosperity and high per capita income. During the Cold War, Finland officially embraced a policy of neutrality. Since then, it has become a member of the European Union in 1995, the Eurozone in 1999, and NATO in 2023. In 20??, after some doubts, Finland became a supporter of the New Aryan Uprising, as Aryanists were able to infiltrate the Finnish government. In this process, a new constitutional monarch was crowned as the King of Finland. During World War III, Finland fought on the side of the Aryan Confederation, later the Greater European Reich and the Greater American Union against Russia, taking large swaths of northwest Russia, taking back Vyborg and the Karelian Peninsula in the process. Finland favored being part of the Scandinavian micro-political influence within the Greater European Reich, replacing Swedish with Nordic language as the second co-official. The Baltics too, adopted the Nordic language as their lingua franca.
Finland is a member of various international organisations, such as the United Nations, the Nordic Council, the Schengen Area, the Council of Europe, the World Trade Organization, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The nation performs exceedingly well in national performance metrics, including education, economic competitiveness, civil liberties, quality of life, and human development.
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