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Prehistory of Finland

Life on eFinland began on 20th November 2007, when eRepublik started its rocky existence. Not much information from those times has survived, mostly because the Finnish community was sparse and few back then, and only a select few from those times are still with us. At first there were only two parties in eFinlan😛 Death Star Supporters and Finnish National Front. Politics was not an interesting or serious business back then, and people jumped parties often.

On 2nd December 2007 Finland elected her first president, Ape from Death Star Supporters. Ape was elected as the President four times in a row, being still the only president in Finland's history who has been a President longer than one term. After Ape, SeeDub from Finnish National Front became the next President of eFinland.


Era of Occupation: Life under the Rule of Great Norway

War module was added to the game on 7th April 2008, and on 18th April Norway declared war against Finland. Finns were a relatively strong people at that time, but they were outnumbered against the Norwegians - with approximately only 100 citizens, they could not beat the militaristic Norwegians. Only two weeks after the release of the war module, on 21st of April, all Finland's six regions had been lost to Norway, and Finland was annexed to the Norwegian Empire.

After facing defeat many Finns moved abroad, some to Greece and some to USA, to start a new life. The hope to regain independence was not however lost, and a strong recruitment campaign was launched to gain new players. The campaign took long to succeed, but finally in August 2008 a wave of Finnish players emerged in Norway. From August to September Finns had gained over one thousand players, and a party called Sovereign Finland came to be the largest party in the world with its 1,400 members. Its sole purpose was to free Finland and give Finland independence, and on September Presidential elections Inunova, a Finn was elected as the President of Norway.

Inunova had long made co-operation with Norwegians, but the quick rise of Sovereign Finland did not please native Norwegian leaders. Despite the possibility of a hostile take-over by Finns was great, Norwegians were assured that Finns did not want anything bad happen to Norway. Finns simply stated that they wanted their original regions back. Indeed, nothing harmful was done to Norway by the Finnish leadership. Having Inunova as their leader, Finns were now closer to achieving this goal than ever before.


The Gold Scandal

At the end of August 2008 Forconin, the President of Norway stole 4,000 Gold from the country treasury "to safeguard" it from the Finns, whom at that time seemed able to take over the presidential seat in the next CP elections. This caused a stir amongst Finns, and relations between Finns and Norwegians were extremely tense because of this incident.

Eventually a more peaceful and diplomatic approach was chosen to start negotiations about regaining independence, and an official discussion between Finnish and Norwegian leadership began. After prolonged negotiations under the leadership of Inunova, Jafarin, Esanssi and Erwin Schauman, Norwegians finally accepted Finland's right for independence.


Independence

When V1 was released, it had been settled that Finland was ready to be liberated. Norway agreed to pay for the first two Resistance Wars, and the region of Eastern Finland was the first region in V1 era to be successfully liberated via RW. At that time walls were 100,000 points in every region regardless of population, and because of the relatively low strength of people back then, the battle to free the region lasted for days.

Presidential elections of November were darkened by a party of Portuguese immigrants, who claimed that they had come in Finland to help it grow and prosper. The attitudes of native Finns were however strongly against the newcomers, and to gain a definite Finnish majority for the elections, also Southern Finland was quickly liberated. In the elections Finns elected a Finnish president for themselves, nanton. Under nanton's leadership the Finnish government and regime were founded and organised, the first congressional code of conduct was formed and the first ministries were conceived. Also the first Finnish military unit was forme😛 Suomen Vapaajoukko (Finnish Volunteer Corps), which was later to become the famed NTJ, Finnish Rapid Deployment Force. The rest of the Finnish regions were liberated in the SPEAR'08 military exercise between Finland and Norway, and the last remaining Finnish region was liberated on 6th of December 2008.


To be continued...