Denmark (A Union Shattered)

The Kingdom of Denmark is a medium-size constitutional and hereditary monarchy (one of the world's last monarchies) located within Central Europe and Scandinavia. It is the southern-most of the Nordic states. The current monarch is King Christian XI of the House of Laborde de Monpezat. The country's head of government is Prime Minister Anders Søvndal of the Danish People's Party.

Denmark is a member state of the League of European States and the United Nations. It was originally a member of the European Union (the predecessor to the European Federation), but left before the Treaty of Paris of 2036. It is often considered one of the wealthiest nations on the planet.

History
The unified kingdom of Denmark emerged in the 9th and 10th centuries as a proficient seafaring nation in the struggle for control of the Baltic Sea. Denmark, Sweden, and Norway were ruled together under one sovereign ruler in the Kalmar Union, established in 1397 and ending with Swedish secession in 1523. The Kingdoms of Denmark and Norway remained under the same monarch until 1814, often referred to as the Dano-Norwegian Realm, or simply Denmark-Norway. Beginning in the 17th century, there were several devastating wars with the rising Swedish Empire, ending with large cessions of territory to Sweden.

After the Napoleonic Wars, Norway was ceded to Sweden, while Denmark kept the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland. In the 19th century there was a surge of nationalist movements, which were defeated in the 1864 Second Schleswig War. Denmark remained neutral during the Great War. In April 1940, a German invasion saw brief military skirmishes while the Danish resistance movement was active from 1943 until the German surrender in May 1945. As an industrialised exporter of agricultural produce in the second half of the 19th century, Denmark introduced social and labour-market reforms in the early 20th century that created the basis for the present welfare state model with a highly developed mixed economy.

Iceland became an independent sovereign state in 1918 and eventually became a republic in 1944. Greenland declared total independence in 2029 following a referendum which favoured complete separation from Denmark. The Faroe Islands remain Danish territory as of 2061.

In 1973, the Kingdom of Denmark joined the EEC, which would later become the European Union. Following the British withdrawal from the Union during the 2010's, Eurospecitism in Denmark declined but the Eurospecitic movement made a resurgence in the 2030's during the increase of power in Brussels