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Nation name (only choose nations on the map, please): Swedish Empire
Capitol: Stockholm
Leader name and age (can be real or made up, if made up explain how he came to power): King Konrad I Frederick Von Palatinate-Zweibrücken, aged 19, the forth and youngest son of King Charles XIII and his Ottoman ethnic Greek mistress Irene , he succeeded the throne with the premature deaths of his elder brothers, his legitimization on his fathers deathbed and the fact his nephew Prince Gustav Adolf was a minor and sickly, and not but not least the fact his claim was backed by the Swedish military.
Heir name and age (can be real or made up): Prince Gustav Adolf, aged 7
Population (if you do not source, you will not be accepted): 1,878,000
Military (remember: 2% max peacetime, 6% max wartime):37,560 (peacetime),112,680 (wartime)
Major religion (note if state religion differs from majority): Lutheranism
Minor religions: Russian Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism
Major culture: Swedish
Minor cultures: German,Finnish, Russian, Norwegian
Notable industries: Farming, Fishing, Timber, Mining
Alliances/trade agreements (prior to the start of the RP): Sweden currently holds alliances and trade deals with the Ottoman Empire, she enjoys cordial relations with Prussia and the other surviving Protestant powers in Europe, though at the same time due to historical relations she has somewhat relaxed relations with France due to their alliance during the Scanian War and mutual backing of the deposed Polish King Stanisław Leszczyński during the Great Northern Wars.
Recent history (to show you understand the period and my changes to history):
While Sweden participated little in the Spanish War of Succession from which the glorious Empire of Bourbonnais arose, it was involved in one of the most spectacular co flicks to grace the 18th century, the Great Northern War (1700-1721). Waged primarily by the powers of Russia, Denmark and Poland-Lithuania to break up the mighty Swedish Empire due to the enthronement of the young King Charles XII these powers were in for a ride awakening. Quickly at the head of the Swedish army Charles had decided to wage nothing short of total war against his foes and this came with magnificent results.
First using the Swedish navy, combined with Dutch and French auxiliary vessels he drove the Danes into submission before unleashing the superior Swedish army on the Russians in the Baltic states, ultimately accumulating in the magnificent victory at Narva. After this Charles briefly contemplated marching south on Poland only to decide to instead focus on breaking the already routed Russians. Marching east the Swedish king and his armies scored a strong of victories however they quickly turned into pyrrhic ones as Russian resistance increased the deeper he pressed into the Motherland. Eventually wary of being forced to rely on foraging in hostile territory, not to mention reports of Danish hostility in the west after briefly sacking Novgorod in 1706 and routing the Russians he fell back into Swedish Estonia having bloodied the Russians sicked upon by his new allies the Ottoman Empire with the aide of rebellious Cossacks in Ukraine, though these had little effect.
Meanwhile back in the west the return of Charles and his army quickly shut up Danish revanchist's, however to the south Poland remained an ever present threat. Determined to crush this annoyance (Poland's Saxon King Augustus had harried Sweden's Baltic and German holdings with Prussia in his absence) he threw his support behind the Polish pretender Stanisław Leszczyński with that of the ever growing Bourbonnais Empire to which Leszczyński was aligned. To solidify the deal Charles married the pretenders daughter Anna Leszczyńska (whom by Cognatic succession could be considered Stanisław's heir) and furthermore dispatched a force of 15,000 troops under his good friend and effective second in command, General Count Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld while he led Swedish troops in Pomerania to fend off the Saxon-Prussian armies there.
Ultimately though while Charles was able to hold on to his German holdings through his sheer generalship the Swedish expedition to seize Poland failed miserably, mostly due to Stanisław and his supporters lack of cooperation with Rehnskiöld. And by 1708 the operation was abandoned by Charles who opted to shore up support in the Ottoman Empire by visiting it whilst the Russians and Polish were held at bay. The trek itself was on several occasions nearly disastrous as the Kings ship nearly was sunk in a storm in the Baltic and while he and 1,000 Carolean guards were riding south they were harassed by Russian and Polish agents with Charles nearly being captured by the Prussians. Eventually though Charles reached the Sublime Port in the hopes of not only gaining further backing from the Ottomans but also to personally lead Ottoman troops in the south against the Russians and advance on the Polish-Lithuanian border to annihilate Augustus. In the end while Charles did join Ottoman troops briefly in the Ukraine, his dream of annihilating Poland from Constantinople was a pipe dream at best. Although it was at this time he took back with him a young ethnic Greek concubine granted to him by the Sultan named Irene, the mother of his son and later heir Konrad I Frederick.
The war itself would see many oddities, ranging from the defeat of Charles Cossack allies at Poltava while he was on the march for Constantinople, not to mention Charles own near death at the Battle of Fredriksten in 1718 where a musket shot ripped through his cap while he was inspecting Swedish trenches. However by that time the war had drastically winded down, Charles and Peter made a truce at Novgorod while for the most part kept the status quo and allowed the two rulers to focus on their other issues (Charles with a once more hostile Denmark and Peter the pesky Ottomans). Ultimately though through his sheer generalship Charles was able to hold onto his Empire, battering the Danes into submission whilst holding Augustus and his German allies back in Pomerania. All of which accumulated to the Treaties of Stockholm and Christiana which secured for Charles and gains in Norway and Germany but ultimately had little value asides adding territory.
While the War had ended in what some may call a Swedish victory it did have effects, Sweden was left with a bloated military (numbering over 120,000) as well as a exhausted economy. To add Charles was despised by many aristocrats for his absolutists rule, and thus in 1722 they attempted to overthrow him while he was mourning his wife the late Queen Anna Leszczyńska who died giving birth to their second child, Ulrika Frederika, and install his brother-in-law Frederick of Hesse on the throne. Known as the Riddarholmen Conspiracy as the conspirators attacked the King at his wife's funeral it ultimately proved a failure due to the conspiracies lack of support by the general populace and more importantly army. And thus was quickly crushed and the ringleaders savagely hanged and quartered under Charles supervision.
Over time Charles did manage to keep a tight hold on the reigns of state and witness the build up of Swedish power culturally as well as militarily through his scientific and cultural achievements. To add the economy slowly recovered through trade and the confiscated wealth of hundreds of rebellious nobles after the Riddarholmen Conspiracy, money which Charles carefully placed into the Swedish army, all to aware of his envious neighbours, especially Russia. However soon another conflict to the west would draw his eye, the Catholic 'Reconquista' of England was far from welcome news to Charles in 1732. Not only did it force him to decide between his French and English supporters but also risked leaving him exposed in the east, thus rather then directly engage he sent Swedish mercenaries to help ward off the Catholics all while rather difficultly dodging French envoy's. Ultimately though his efforts were for not as the English were crushed in 1742 and soon an exodus of Protestants from the British Isles reached Sweden.
Now unnerved by growing French power Charles however was busy warring in Northern Germany with Mecklenburg over Swedish Pomerania. And due to Saxon and thus be default Prussian and Polish intervention the wily old King was facing what seemed like another drawn out war in 1747. During this time as well the King witnessed his bastard son by Irene, the same concubine he brought back from Constantinople, Konrad Frederik Von Helsingborg shine on the battlefield after he won several strategic victories on the campaign not to mention later prove himself an effective diplomat by helping negotiate the subsequent Treaty of Kalmar. In response the youth was quickly appointed Viceroy of Swedish Pomerania upon the wars conclusion (another status quo). However as the Swedish army returned home they brought with them a deadly guest, typhus, quickly becoming an endemic it savaged the nation and not even the royal family was immune within a month of returning all three of Charles surviving male heirs were dead and the King himself dying. Hearing the news the popular and highly ambitious Konrad made his move marching north the wily royal bastard quickly placed Stockholm under martial law and then visited his dying father. From this the widowed Charles not only married Konrad's mother but also legitimized the youth while overlooking his sickly grandson Prince Gustav Adolf. Soon after on June 22nd 1751 Charles XII was dead at the age of 69 and was succeeded by his legitimized bastard son Konrad I Frederik.
Naturally the ascension of Konrad drew eyebrows even briefly provoking a standoff with the Danish whom's rulers attempted to press their own claims which ultimately though led to Konrad routing a Danish army. Furthermore the bastardous King faced dissension from within as his cousin Karl Peter Ulrich, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp attempted to lead a revolt to place Konrad's nephew on the throne only to be crushed and led off in shackles until being ransomed by his Russian relatives. In short Konrad through his tight hand over the military crushed all opposition, furthermore while he was a skilled strategist he was also an enlightened despot, a lover of the histories, arts and sciences he encouraged cultural and technological pursuits and became known for his love of Machiavellian philosophy. Now with his realm secure he however faces odds, radical Protestants are pushing for further backing of Scottish and also American rebels while at the same time the Austro-Prussian War for Bavaria has left him eyeing Germany's Baltic coast, finally though there lies Russia Sweden's great rival to the east however perhaps through a partition of Poland-Lithuania might the two final come to terms?
Notes:
I'll have those maps up ASAP, sorry. TG me. Also, we kind of need an IC to post in...