Thread:Wuldnakest/@comment-26948101-20151027180641

A little while ago, you asked Just out of curiosity, is Suomiia a parallel with Finland?.

I thought I could give you a more detailed answer here.

Basically the answer is 'yes'. Since there seems to be no equivalent to the USA in MGE, and the fic is from the narrative of a foreigner in the MGE equivalent of Japan, I thought I'd be clever and incorporate some sort of in-universe counterpart to Finland.

Then I belatedly found out that Finland as a modern nation has barely been around for 100 years- pretty new by European standards.

Still, the culture- which at first blush struck me as not quite Nordic and not quite Slavic- has been around for much longer than the actual nation, which I guess kind of mitigates my blunder. 