Re: Madison Nightmare (Geopolitics in Jon's Universe)

On Fri, 5 Sep 1997, Oerjan Ohlson wrote:

> one), Iceland (roughly the same) or Finland (know too little about
> their trading relations - Mikko'll have to fill in on this), 

If the choice is between NAC, NSL, FSE and ESU, barring major changes in

political climate, Finland would be in league with NSL. It's a close 
call, really, but I think geography would be the most important factor, 
and of the viable candidates, ESU is ruled out immediately.

> Sorry to disappoint you, but I strongly doubt if the Scandinavian
> countries could afford going into space even if all five unite -
> there are simply too few of us, and with current birth rates we
> won't be that many more in the future.

And some obscure third world countries do? C'mon, this is science
fantasy 
anyway.

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