New Finland

## Democratic Republic of New Finland

Flag of the Democratic Republic of New Finland in 2163

### Official name

Democratic Republic of New Finland (Uuden Suomen demokraattinen tasavalta/Die Demokratische Republik Neufinnland)

### Language(s)

German
 Finnish

### Established

2139

The **Democratic Republic of New Finland (Uuden Suomen demokraattinen tasavalta/Die Demokratische Republik Neufinnland)**, commonly known as **New Finland (Uusi Suomi/Neufinnland)** or sometimes as the **DRF** or **DRNF**, is a state located in South Usuin, that was founded on September 12th, 2139 following the end of the Reunification Wars. It also has an autonomous self-governing region known as the  Autonomous Republic of New Turku, which was founded in 2143 upon New Turku's annexation by New Finland in the same year.

## History

### The First Settlements

During the 2070's, multiple Finnish missions from Earth arrived to new planet, founding a few small research stations and outposts before leaving. In 2078, a group of colonists would arrive to Earthia on a mission, founding the city of New Helsinki and beginning construction. They were cut off by the sudden influx of government and civilian refugees on poorly prepared rockets following the nuclear war and destruction of Earth, forcing a very rapid expansion of New Helsinki, transforming into the new cities of New South Helsinki and New North Helsinki, quickly growing in population due to the sudden waves of refugees. From 2081 to 2087, the Federation of the Refugees, also known as the Federation of New Helsinki would exist, attempting to keep everything in the territory at peace, establishing common laws and governance. The federation would break up after the death of it's leader, Himmler Walst, who had practically been the only one keeping the weak state together. Multiple small factions would fight over the two cities, many losing and being kicked out into the nearby empty lands, where they established their own new states, splitting up the once united community into roughly 40 independent and small groups fighting eachother on a constant basis.

### Wars of Reunification

For roughly the next 60 years, constant wars would take place between the fractured micro-states, with no single one ever coming out on top. The two major cities would devolve into ruins and war grounds, upon which the largest battles took place. By the 2100's, a group known as the League of Freedom had managed to take over most of New South Helsinki, increasing their power significantly. They would spend the next decade rebuilding the city and slowly taking over New North Helsinki, pushing out the last soldiers of the Socialist Republican Party of New Helsinki from New North Helsinki by 2121. Having established control over all of New Helsinki, the League of Freedom rebranded itself to the Finnish Liberation Army, setting out on a quick campaign to destroy the other Finnish states in the region, which had weakened themselves through their unending wars with eachother. After a few lightning strike attacks against the remaining SRPNH troops, the multiple ultranationalist groups and the few other small republis in the north, the FLA had mostly consolidated it's hold over the now Finnish lands, though one enemy remained.

To the west of the FLA, the Republic of Finlandia had been growing in strength, absorbing and destroying many small states. It had even gone on to found a new city, Frastia, which had grown to become rather prosperous, having a population of 18,760 by the start of the final war for reunification. The two states would first clash in 2130, ending in a stalemate after the armies of both countries were decimated beyond belief, needing time to recover. A few skirmishes would take place during 2134 and 2136, not resulting in much. Finally by 2137, Finlandia had gathered enough men to start a campaign against the FLA, first going in their favour, as the FLA had not expected such an early attack, but soon began to turn in the FLA's favour, as it managed to create an army in a matter of months, crushing the Finlandian forces at the gates of New Helsinki and pushing them back into their own country. By 2138, Finlandia would begin to collapse, surrendering in late November of the same year to the Finnish Liberation Army, which would go on to found the Democratic Republic of New Finland in early 2139.

### A New Era

During the coming decade, New Finland would slowly recover from the war, rebulding it's old cities and fixing the long ruined economy of the region. In 2143, after a series of negotiations New Finland would also incorporate New Turku as the Autonomous Republic of New Turku. All of this would be done under it's first president Pasi Heinrich Miettinen, who also was the founder of the Finnish Republican Party. He would be reelected twice, once in 2144 and again in 2148, before dying in 2151. Following his death, he would be followed by Erik Ojala, also from the same political party. He would be reelected once in 2152, but quickly became unpopular with the military due to his strictly anti-war policy, which also made him a major proponent of decreasing military spending. In 2154, the military would launch a coup under Harri Juvonen and Kaarlo Klügmann, deposing Erik Ojala. Harri was appointed as head of government and Kaarlo as head of state, though Kaarlo would assume both positions in 2157 after Harri died under suspicious circumstances, some believing he may have been poisoned by someone who has payed by Kaarlo. Kaarlo would hold an election in 2160, which confirmed the people's wishes for him to remain as leader, with the Finnish National Unity Party winning the election with 87.4% of the vote.

### Instability and Chaos

***"I don't know? I guess we'll figure out this crap..."** - Nikolai Ryzhkov*
This article or section **contains possible spoilers**.

***"Truly the troll of all time"** - Kārlis Priede*
This article or section is non canon to the DDE story.

[Yeah okay no the whole section below is for now uncannon until I figure out the actual full extant and scale of the civil war (after which this section will either remain and be cannon again or I'll think of a new section (mostly depends on how the civil war in game ends up looking))]

With support for the Republicans and Democrats rising quickly, Kaarlo would cancel the 2164 elections, rescheduling them for 2166. This would annoy the republicans and socialists, who would unite under a common banner of democracy and protest in the streets of major cities, with the government responding with military crackdown and arrests of protest leaders, which only lead to larger and more violent protests, with the cycle resulting in full blown riots by just the start of September 2163, forcing Kaarlo to bombard the capital city of New Helsinki until the rioters got scared and went home. The plan would fail, only leading to new protests, forcing Kaarlo to allow the elections to take place in February 2164, the republicans winning with a 56% majority and the socialists getting second place. Kaarlo would refuse to accept the election results, causing a second wave of protests and then riots, with the government beginning to believe the situation was unsaveable, forcing Kaarlo to declare Ludwig Rickenbacker the General-Minister of the New Finland on April 13th. As May approached, Kaarlo would continue to lose more support among his own government as he failed to solve the crisis, being forced to step down on April 28th, 2164, allowing Ludwig to become the new President soon after. The situation wouldn't get any better, with rioters managing to take control over New Helsinki completely by the middle of May, while the army more and more frequently disobayed the orders of the government. This all would finally come to an end on June 2nd, when Ludwig was overthrown by segments of the military, who declared the restoration of democracy and allowed Taneli Kärkkäinen to take power on June 7th, for a time ending the riots.