Is this still open? If so, I’d like to join, please.
Nation name: Nordland
Nation info: Nordland is the result of the political unification of Snofjogur (my NS nation; factbook
here, though it is the year 2030 in the factbook, so just extrapolate anything it says there) and Iceland in 2051. Our capital is Reykjavík, and we control the territories of Snofjogur (map
here) and real-world Iceland. Our population is about 700,000, over 70% of which consists of convinced atheists (most of the rest are lutherans of one variety or another, so we don’t have a significant jewish population). We have stringent immigration-control and environmentalist laws, as well as strictly anti-interventionist policies, but we will support human rights and environmentalism elsewhere on Earth. We do not have an army and are thus unable to fight; however, we have extremely advanced information-tech and biotech industries and export our technological products (which include lab-grown food and organs and advanced AI) to many nations, especially those in the Arctic and north-Atlantic regions. We have excellent relations with most of Europe and okay-ish relations with the USA (they used to be good, but then the USA used nuclear weapons on North Korea in 2025 and things have been chilly ever since; however, if this conflicts with your canon then I’ll pretend it never happened). We have had a permanent colony on Mars for a quarter of a century (with robotic drones and rovers until 2047 and humans since then); in my canon, the only other Martian colony (currently only with drones and rovers) belongs to the European Space Agency, but, again, this doesn’t have to come into play here if it contradicts your canon (also, I doubt Mars will come into play at all). Nordland is a nation with minimal corruption and crime and many effective measures in place to deal with any Nordlander politicians who act against the nation’s rules and laws, meaning we effectively can’t be bribed or blackmailed. We have a socialist economy but do not see ourselves as communists and, though we dislike capitalism because we view it as intrinsically unfair, do not inherently dislike capitalist nations.
What we’d do in the game: As stated above, no fighting. We’re deeply committed to science, culture and progress, so we’d help Deugaw’s efforts to preserve libraries and such. We would also be willing to increase our biotech and infotech exports to the USA and would refuse to trade with (and condemn in any UN/WA meetings) the NAS. We’d provide foreign aid to civilian casualties in the coming conflict. We have excellent standing with the EU (though we are not a member state), especially the Scandinavian countries, and in the UN/WA, so we have plenty of allies who can probably defend us from threats, seeing as we don’t have an army. We’re willing to take a small number of refugees in
as long as they fully assimilate into our culture; if this game spans several years, you might see us remorselessly kicking out any immigrants/refugees who fail to assimilate after a few years (where they go is not our concern).
Let me know if that works with the game you’d like to run.
All edits to this post have been made to correct typos.