Flag of the Union of Fennoscandia
Born as an experiment of political unity during the tumultuous era of the oil collapse (c. 2055), the Union, originally of Norway, Finland and Sweden, saw political success through embracing a parallel relationship with the burgeoning European Federation, opposing its enemies and detractors leading up to formation.
In the 2070s, Fennoscandia saw its territory expand to encompass the former-Karelia and Murmansk oblasts with the onset of the Russian civil war. Fennoscandia's occupation of Karelia and Murmansk would remain a point of hostility between Fennoscandia and Russia for several centuries onward, but today Murmanskis and Karelians are indeed as Fennoscandian as any other, largely due to the efforts of activist Prime-Minister Hans Lundström, whose 2123 election would mark a turning point for Fennoscandia on the world stage.
As a result of economic and technological alliances forged with the Euroskeptic United Kingdom, Lundström's "One Europe" policy became a reality, and the United Kingdom would, gradually, be brought into a greater political sphere between the Federation and Union, paving the way for the creation of the North Sea Organization and its parent body, the European Solar Command, the latter of which retains its prominence today.
EUROSOLCOM was born during the era leading up to the War in Heaven as a result of the wide axial military alliances between nominally friendly states. Because Europeans had concentrated their colonization efforts toward the outer solar system, North-South American encroachment posed a significant risk to the whole, and therefore led way to the creation of a joint European military body in the Solar System.
Following the end of the War in Heaven, and the fortunate closing of the era now known as The Last Days, Fennoscandia would find renewed geopolitical power among the victorious Sino-European alliance, finding its new place in the solar system as a permanent body of the Solar Commerce Organization - an interplanetary government body we now often compare to the United Nations.
-An excerpt from "A Light in the Abyss: The History of Fennoscandia, 2062-2325."
The Union of Fennoscandia is one of the major space-faring nations of the 26th century, a member of the European Solar Command, and a permanent member of the Solar Commerce Organization.
Fennoscandia is best known for its highly-functional democracy and high standard of living, as well as its ability to produce exceptional physicists - Fennoscandians were the first to pioneer interstellar travel via the War in Heaven-era DARKSHOT program, as well as the primary sponsor of the trans-national New Worlds Solar Endeavor.
Fennoscandians are a diverse and proud group, hailing from many different cultures, though most Fennoscandians are of a Nordic background, hailing from the Fennoscandian regions of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Karelia, Murmansk, as well as the Titanian treaty city of New Malmo.
The Fennoscandian diaspora also consists of several strong communities across the solar system, including communities in the European Federation, on Titan, and on Mars.