Nordika burns
The small nation of Northnorge has been ruled for what seems like forever by an oppressive government which uses brutal force to cow its citizens into submission. Fueled by racism, xenophobia, and violence, the extremist Krusade party gained control of Northnorge's parliament in 1962. Immediately eradicating democracy and seizing power in all government ministries, the Party's leaders swiftly established an iron-fisted dictatorship and exterminated their political adversaries. This was only the beginning of their agenda, however.
In 1965 the now established government enacted wide-sweeping race laws which segregated the majority of the population, Germanic Balts, from the other inhabitants of Northnorge. Protests were dispersed through military force, and outcries from the press were silenced at gunpoint. By 1970 all of the country's news outlets were under government control, and the Secret Police had rounded up and terminated any outspoken enemies of the state.
The next forty-seven years flew by, with the people's liberties gradually diminishing. After all of this time, however, the government has still failed to win over the hearts of their citizens. While their military remained mysteriously fanatic, the people at large grew increasingly discontent, until by 2017 riots were again breaking out in major cities.
The clash that resulted in Northnorge's civil war was sparked by an elaborate bomb plot. Agents of liberty managed to detonate an explosive inside the Secret Police headquarters in Nordika, Northnorge's capital. In the resulting chaos citizens took to the streets in bloody battles with riot police. However, in the confusion police were unable to control the fighting and it spread to the better part of the city.
Three days later the battle was still raging, with most of Nordika in flames. The fighting in the capital had inspired numerous rebellions in nearly every major city, with long-inactive sleeper cells rising up as the nuclei of partisan armies. With several important Party leaders dead or missing and the military in disarray, the government could feel their iron grip on Northnorge slackening and so decided to wage a total and destructive war on their own people.
Bomber planes sowed death from above, ravaging towns all over Northnorge. Behind them came the trampling infantry, massacring every man, woman, and child that got in their way, showing not a shred of remorse for their terrible crimes. Chancellor Fredrik Knuts and his government realized that they had unleashed a monster, but their efforts at halting it came too little and too late. Before long the rebels, realizing their dire straits, broadcast a cry for help, fearful of the horrific reprisals that would be inflicted on the country's people should the revolution be quashed.
As government soldiers begin to restore "order", the people's last hope is in foreign intervention...