Finland

Finland was a poor north European country with a small population of 9 million people. For a while it was seen as just another economic puppet of Germany, but nowadays scholars have been looking more into the Finish intricacies.

## **Former Finnish Lunar Colonies:**

The Finnish lunar colonies had quite an exciting start. Finnish people fled en masse to the new frontier in the sky, here they found themselves in an at the time very discriminatory german colonial state. This state decided it no longer wished to contain many minority groups it did and decided to give these minority groups lands that were very poor in quality and resources.

As one can imagine, many of these people died, however, the Finnish people had been allotted a piece of land that was surprisingly productive even if still very bad in quality. They managed to persist in okay numbers and later when heavy metals were discovered to exist in large quantities within the now Finnish territories, it allowed them to persist.

## **Independence:**

In 2179, four provinces calling themselves Pieni Suomi declared themselves independent. This move was perpetrated by Alpertti Hesse-Kassel and his followers as they wished to set up a monarchy.

The civil war started with a sudden assault of Alpertti's personal militias on the city of Kuusari. The central New Finland government did not expect this move and the local police force were the only ones capable of putting up any form of resistance. Despite the lack of proper government forces, the militias of the monarchists suffered heavy casualties, because of a very apparent lack of training.

In the First few weeks the cities of Kuusari, Uusi Turku, Varlinna and Uusi Vaasa were besieged and taken by monarchist forces. After 2 months, however, the New Finnish governmental forces were properly enforced by reinforcements and the monarchists advances were halted.

Seven months into the rebellion, Alpertti Hesse-kassel was poisoned and monarchist forces fell into chaos. The governmental forces were able to take back the cities of Uusi Vaasa, Varlinna, Uusi Turku and half of Kuusari in a one year period.

After this Guerrilla warfare was mostly used against one another and no more major military maneuvers took place. When Silverhill Republic peacekeeping forces showed up, most guerrilla warfare died down too and uneasy peace was formed for 2 years. After 2 years when many of the Silverhill Forces had left the area, New Finland decided to go for a mass assault across the border and took large swathes of land. The maneuvers angered all nations that were there on peacekeeping missions and the two nations were forced to sign a peace treaty with the forces set up along the original armistice line.

### **The Death Of A King:**

Seven months into the rebellion, Alpertti Hesse-Kassel died of poison. The person that killed him was the son of the Federative Socialist States of Luna, who came along with his dad with the intent of killing Alpertti Hesse-Kassel already in mind. Both the son and the dad were captured and a council of 12 of Alpertti's closest advisors was set up to find a new monarch and rule in the meantime.

The council has never decided on a monarch and only ever decides on new replacement members in the council.