The Viking Empire

Day 841, 14:17 • Published in USA USA • by Joe Newton
This is the second Installment in my eHistory of Empires Series.
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Part 1: The First Empire Pakistan


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Alt for Norge || All for Norway
That's the Norwegian national motto by the way.

Norway started off like most every other eNation, internet forums. This was so successful, that they got 1,500 players, beating Pakistan and only being surpassed by Sweden, which was it's ally. In fact, Sweden and Norway thought so much of each other that they even started the Northern Alliance which was a pre-runner to ATLANTIS. But then 2 weeks later Norway left the alliance.
The Northern Alliance had the United States, Romania, Ireland, UK, Sweden and Norway in it at its height.



Norway's empire got started off with the conquest of Finland, which was probably only conquered to gain a bigger border with Russia, which was trying to set up a Communist economy; and having massive internal infighting. The Norwegian reason for war was that the Russian MPP with Indonesia was an attempt to keep them from expanding, which Russia denied. Regardless, the Norwegians attacked and started "The Great Patriotic War" as the Ruskies called it. The Vikings effectively blitzed through Mother Russia, and conquered all of it. A large reason for that was that they declared war BEFORE the MPP took effect, and Indonesia had to manually send troops. Indonesia did not send much aid for Russia because of that. Most of the defense came from Iran. Regardless, the Commies were finished off easily.



Norway never expanded from here. They lacked goals, which is essential for any Empire if they want to keep their Empire or expand it. Norway's fall was aided by a large Finnish Player recruitment, which PTOed the Vikings from the inside. They even won the Presidency twice, and then forced the Norwegians to agree to Operation Spear; which slowly returned the Fins regions and also made the first training war ever, which may just be their greatest accomplishment.

With the loss of Finland, Norway's population took a massive dive. A Russian independence movement then started to spring up, with Iranian help. At the same time, the Russians were reaking havoc on the Norwegian economy. The Viking President was forced to negotiate with them. The negotiations were at first bitter and hateful, but in the end went quite well. For a certain Empire. It was about this time that ATLANTIS was formed.



The negotiations freed some Russian regions, and gave the option of freeing others later - in exchange for the Russians leaving the congress and stop ruining Norway's economy. The first RWed region was the Volga region, which was probably RWed first to give the new country high grain, so they could make their own food. The next region RWed region was the richest region in all of eRepublik, Western Siberia.



But now the real empire that gained the most from this agreement came to light: the Romanians. Romania VETOed Russia's membership to ATLANTIS. Not real membership, fyi. More like the type of membership Germany had. More like a Protectorate. Romania then started a RW in the Moscow region, and then the Northern region, and declared war against Russia in which their close alliance with Norway would prove crucial to get West Siberia region. It was basically a Region swap, only they backstabbed the Russians to do it. It was quite ingenious. Romania conquered Moscow with ease, but Russia picked up 5-6 PEACE MPPs and defended the next battle. So Romania turned to PTO. But this isn't about Romania or Russia, its about Norway.

The few remaining Norwegian regions were used to aid Romania in their military endeavors until they were all gone. Norway's population steadily declined.

Recently, Norway played a role in the EDEN invasion of the UK which ended in stalemate.



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