Norway

Flag of Norway

Norway, Officially the Kingdom of Norway, is an isolated country in Northern Europe. It, like most constitutional monarchies, is a Unitary Constitutional Monarchy. Norway is ruled by the house of Glücksburg, witch is a branch of the Oldenburg family witch rules Denmark. Norway was neutral during the Second Weltkrieg but did somewhat align with the Third Internationale. This led to embargoes during the war witch Norway is struggling to recover fully from. Norway is relatively weak compared to its neighbors. Norway is a recent country on the European stage having been founded in 1905 with the split up of Sweden-Norway. Making this nation only about a decade older than the German puppet states in Eastern Europe. Norway's neutrality during the Second Weltkrieg will hurt in the short term but as Liberalism and Authoritarianism clash the relatively liberal Norway is looking towards the West where the Entente lays. However as a member of the remaining socialist countries, it may be a while before Norway is accepted into the Entente. But things have begun to change with the discovery of large oil deposits in Norwegian waters. This makes Norway important for this resource as the Egyptian-Aligned Saudi Arabia will be reluctant to sell oil to the Entente.

## History

In 1936 the nation of Norway was split in twain with its parties fighting for every vote. While not as bad as the United States of America, it still was a dire situation. The Socialists were getting uppity and the National Populists where slowly rising in popularity. And then the 1937 elections came around and in a historic vote the Social Democrat won. However this came with a compromise with the Market Liberals in order to unite against the Radical elements, but rest be assured the Social Democrats were the senior partner. In 1940 as the term of the current chancellor was beginning to end the Second Weltkrieg began. The Social Democratic government sympathized with the Third Internationale. And blocked iron shipments to Germany though its ports. However the Reichspakt threatened intervention and an agreement was struck. Norway was to be forced neutral during the war as to not anger any one side. However this angered the Third Internationale who blockaded the Norwegian coast. And due to the agreement Norway could not act against the Third Internationale. For Four long years the Norweigans were reliant on home grown crops and limited imports from Sweden to survive but life was difficult. But when the French Commune collapsed the Blockade was dropped as ships were needed to protect the British Isles. But as the Social Democratic government slowly got more radical they were embargoed again by the Reichspakt. This made the Norwegians reliant on the Entente for foodstuffs witch was vulnerable to British Submarines. But eventually their grip on Norways food supplied loosened and the Norwegian people could breath a sigh of relief. In 1947 the Social Democrat Trygve Lie despite the rising unpopularity of the Social Democrats won the election. Now with the widening gap between the Entente and Reichspakt the Norwegians find themselves on the side of the Entente. But it will take some miracles for the Norwegians to join the Entente.

## Military

Norway has a small standing military compared to the rest of Europe as it lacked participation in the Weltkrieg. It's army is small compared to Sweden and is about the size of that of Belgium. Pitiful for the size of the country. Its navy is also small and is mostly used for defensive operations around its ports. While the air force is woefully outdated having been built in the 1930s.