RE: Nations, States, and Organizations in Full Thrust

On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Ground Zero Games wrote:

> The Scandinavian Fed is new to the timeline - we have never detailed
> anything about the Scandinavian countries, but wanted to do some
troops in
> arctic combat kit and decided to introduce them. They'll have to be
covered
> in a future publication. For the moment, I would place them as a minor
> power with both on- and off-earth holdings. The SF will consist of
Sweden,
> Denmark, Norway, probably Finland (Hi, Mikko!!) and possibly Iceland,
plus
> a number of small inner colony and outworld settlements.

Having Finland as part of the Scandinavian Federation is plausible, but 
it won't be a seamless fit. No common language, a history of 700 years
of 
oppression... 

Finland also has the highest population density up north (even Reykjavik

is roughly on the same latitude as Helsinki, and 99% of Finland is north

of that). I think I read somewhere that 25% of the world's population 
loony enough to live this far North are Finns (compared to about 0.1% of

total population).

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