Nordic Federation

The Nordic Federation of Nations (NFN), more commonly known as the Nordic Federation (N.F.) or Scandinavia is a unitary state and a federation with several constitutional monarchies operating within it composed of 8 colonized worlds, 23 star systems, numerous smaller outpost worlds scattered in the Reach as part of the Nordic-American Settlement Agreement and it shares the Odin Ridge with the Commonwealth of Poland.

The name of the Federation stems back to its antique Earth history- "Nord" is a direct reference to the northern, Scandinavian root of the nation. At their earliest point, the Nordic people were simply Arctic-European tribes, inhabiting the valleys of what would later become kingdoms. Once these tribes united, they started a unique European culture of the "vikings"- a warrior society that became famous for its coastal raiding and mythology, dying out in the 11th century as old Christianity was introduced to more organised kingdoms.

There were multiple attempts to form a Scandinavian Union in the following years, starting with the Kalmar Union that once encompassed a territory from Greenland, reaching to the north-east coast of Norway, conceived in a marriage between nobles, and reinforced with military power. The Northern Isles of Scotland, on Earth, were given away as part of a dowry agreement in 1472 AD, and the mainland Union was dissolved in a Swedish revolt.

Scandinavia remained unformed for centuries afterwards, with the respective countries occasionally taking part in major European wars between 1500-2000, such as the Great Northern War- but they did not have a particularly strong colonial or international impact until the formation of the Nordic Model of government, which saw strong economic success in the 21st century, and after social reforms, the peninsula formally united in 2046 AD.

The Nordic Federation is the Milky Way's twentieth largest nation in total area. With a population of half a billion people, the Nordic Federation is also the eighteenth-most populous country in Human space. The capital of the Federation is Svalbard on the cold colony world of Scandinavia Prime, and the largest world by population is Scandinavia Prime's neighbor, Freyja. Each colonized world in the Federation on average is comprised of 50 or so provinces.

The isolated colony of New Faroe is the furthest Nordic world from Scandinavia Prime and is located on the rim of Nordic space in the Odin Ridge, bordering with the Victoria Cluster and being neighbors to several Scottish mining and shipbuilding colonies in the North Rift between the two nation's territories where trade has begun to pick up in recent years as Nordic-Scottish relations improve. The Nordic Federation also maintains several shared colonies in the Reach, operating these worlds alongside the United States as part of the Nordic-American Settlement Agreement signed in 2204 with the U.S. agreeing to provide the colonies with security from the US Navy in return for Nordic assistance on terraforming projects in the region.