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Alright!

Finland: Cold War Specialist.

Finland is a parliamentary republic in Northeastern Europe home to 6.3 million people, most of which are of Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian or Russian descent. As a neutral nation, Finland is not part of any major alliance, and is one of the last remaining members of the United Nations in this day and age.

Economically, Finland is an odd one. Finland is an economic powerhouse centred around facilitating trade from both the liberal ATO and the nationalistic MDP, both of which surround it. Its ideal location between the technological powerhouses of Scandinavia and the war machine of Western Russia makes it a precarious yet rewarding attempt at neutrality. The Finnish government is reliant on turnover trade (a practice of using Finnish entities to sell ATO goods to the MDP and vice verse) and peace events which are regularly held in the country.

Militarily, the Finnish military is only capable of defending itself. With no significant or major allies in this neutral state, Finland's military forces are used to a backlog of both American and Russian military equipment, as part of a political strategy of buying both countries' so as to remain at peace. The Finnish military, while incapable of projecting power beyond its borders, is an expert at land warfare in cold arid environments and has a reasonable naval and aerial force in the region. The Finnish military is also one of several in the world trained to use differing nations' equipment interchangeably, making Finnish military techniques highly coveted in the military world.

Politically, the Finnish country is seperated into multiple differing ideologies, including the social liberal-centrist Centre Party, the conservative National Coalition Party, the Social Democratic Party, the libertarian Blue Reform party, and last but not least the outlawed Finns Party(occurred after encouragement of race-based terrorist attacks in the early 2030s). The former three are the most popular, each sharing a roughly equal amount of seats of 74% in the country's parliament, whereas the Blue Reform occupies a majority of the rest. In recent years, due to concerted propaganda efforts by Western Russia, the Finns Party has slowly gained a minor base of support.

Finland's entire platform starts and ends at 'peace and neutrality'. Nothing more than that. Some ways it will feel unsatisfying not to be able to take a side; but then again, isn't neutrality an alliance in itself?