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The Kingdom of Sweden
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Population: 5.531 Million
Area: 449,964 sq. km.

Capital: Stockholm
Major Cities: Stockholm, Gothenburg/Göteborg, Malmö, Uppsala
Currency: Krona (4.9 Kr = 1 US Dollar)
National Language: Swedish
Religions: Lutheran (85%), Catholic, Orthodox, Jewish, Baptist, Muslim, Buddist

Tech Level 5
Production Center: Stockholm
Resources: Stockholm 12
Coal 1, Hydroelectric Resources 1
Food Production: 8 FPU (+2.5 FPU Surplus)
Commerce: 2 Shipping Units

Government: Constitutional Monarchy
Parliament: The Riksdag is Bicameral
Head of State: King Gustaf V (from 7 December 1907)
Head of Government: Prime Minister Rickard Sandler (from 1 May 1923)
Major Political Parties: Social Democratic, Liberal, Moderate

Svensk Marin:
2 Battle Ships (Dristigheten [1900], Oscar II [1905])
10 Armoured Cruisers (21 cm guns: Äran, Manligheten, Tapperheten, Vasa [1902], Svea, Göta, Thule [1894]. 24.9 cm guns: Oden, Thor, Niord [1899])

Swedish Army:
Frontline [80,000 Soldiers]
HQ, Infantry Division, Artillery Division, 6 Highly Trained Alpine Brigades.
Reserves [280,000 Soldiers]
HQ, 4 Infantry Divisions, 2 Substandard Infantry Divisons, 3 Militia Divisions, 6 Alpine Brigades.

OOC: This is the thread for News and Diplomacy for the Kingdom of Sweden...

Population: 5.5 Million
Market Economy Peacetime Growth Rate: 3% per Year
Tech Level: 4.5
Production Centers: Stockholm 2
Resources: Stockholm 11
Energy Resources: 1 Coal and 1 Hydroelectric
Commerce: 2 Shipping Units
Food Production: 8 Food Production Units

1908 Income: Production Income - 8 Points, Resources - 14 Points, Commerce - 2 Points [24 Total Points]
1908 Costs: Military Maintence - 7.9 Points (not including refueling), Supply Staff Cost - 4 Points, Level III Social Spending - 3 Points [14.9 Total Points]

Svensk Marin:
2 BB (Dristigheten [1900], Oscar II [1905]) - .5 Maintence Total
10 CA (21 cm guns: Äran, Manligheten, Tapperheten, Vasa [1902], Svea, Göta, Thule [1894]. 24.9 cm guns: Oden, Thor, Niord [1899]) - 2.5 Maintence Total
Naval Yard: Copenhagen - 1 pt cost
Naval Base: Karlskrone - .5 pt Maintence

Swedish Army:
(Conscript Force)
Infantry Division - .5 Maintence total
4 Infantry Corp - 2 Maintence Total
4 Highly Trained Alpine Brigades - .4 Maintence total
Supply Staff - .5 Maintence

March 21, 1906 - The Riksdag, Stockholm

The Riksdag has approved a redistricting procedure for all of the seats of the Upper and Lower Chambers of Parliament.
The Upper Chamber will now consist of 100 members sorted by the Lands while the 249 members of the new Lower Chamber will be sorted by the county of residence.
Götaland will consist of Blekinge, Västra Götaland, Gotland, Halland, Kronoberg, Kalmar, Skåne, Östergötland and Jönköping counties.
Svealand will consist of Dalarna, Uppsala, Stockholm, Södermanland, Västmanland, Örebro and Värmland counties.
Norrland will consist of Norrbotten, Västernorrland, Västerbotten, Jämtland and Gävleborg counties.

March 21, 1906 - Royal Palace, Stockholm

King Oscar II also signed an act that would reduce the terms of the members of Parliament from a 9 year term to a 6 year term as well as establish universal sufferage for all male inhabitants of the Kingdom over the age of 21.

The People of the Kingdom of Sweden send their heartfilled condolences to the Royal Family and the Inhabitants of the Nation of Spain... All National Flags in the Kingdom shall be lowered to half staff as well as the flag at the Swedish embassy in Madrid.
Crown Prince Gustaf of Sweden and his wife Victoria of Baden will represent the Royal House of Bernadotte (Sweden) at the Royal Funeral...

May 10, 1907 : Royal Palace - Stockholm
King Oscar II's worsening health and old age is starting to affect the capabilities of governance in such a way that he may soon gradually give up the Bernadotte throne to Crown Prince Gustaf within the next few months...

1 July 1907 - Royal Palace, Stockholm

Prime Minister Karl Albert Staaff had a little scare when one of the Backbenchers in the Lower House was taken away to hospital due to a mental breakdown during a debate with the Prime Minister on social welfare policy during the Monday questioning hour... Conservative MP Anders Lindermann was taken to a local mental hospital in Stockholm and is recovering quite well from his breakdown.

July 29, 1907 - Royal Palace, Stockholm

A major protest occured across the street from the offices of the Dagens Nyheder newspaper in Stockholm. The protest involved several Trade Unions who are protesting to try to improve the working conditions of factory workers as well as many outside groups from all over the Kingdom... The Unions now want the Labour Minister to resign as soon as possible due to the lack of reform in the Social Welfare of workers.

6th December 1907 - Royal Palace, Stockholm

King Oscar II of Sweden has just died in his bed chamber. He was declared dead of natural causes at 9:17 in the morning by the royal doctor. Crown Prince Gustaf was absolutely heartbroken and distrought when he heard of his father's passing as well as the rest of the Royal House of Bernadotte. The Royal Flags of Sweden are to be lowered to half staff for the rest of 1907 and January of 1908 to honor the Great King Oscar...and also crown Gustaf as Sweden's newest King.

The United States of America sends its condolences to the Royal Family and the Swedish people for their loss. Hopes that the next king will have a peaceful and productive reign are passed along as well.

The King of Denmark sends his condolences to the kings family, parliment as well to the people of Sweden in response to the natural passing of King Oscar II. The King of Sweden has died, Long live the King of Sweden.

1909 in Review:
Things have been very quiet on the Swedish stage and there was a little revolt at a textile mill near Gothenburg that turned into a very ugly situation where the Women left the mill and locked the gates of the mill and when the management tried to force them back to work. A riot eventually developed at the mill and was only stopped by police intervention after a couple of hours. The Labour Ministry was absolutely insenced(sp) by the actions of the factory owners and at the Royal Union of Women's Texile Workers for the mistakes of the strike.

Peacetime: Non-Aligned, Western-based. Wartime: Neutral.

Major Trading Partners: Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain and Ireland, Norway, Russia and the United States among others.

No Hostile Nations as of yet due to neutrality...

Germany asks the Kingdom of Sweden to recognize their Scandic brothers in the Republic of Finland and the Baltic nations as free, independent nations. Secretly, Sweden is asked if they would be able to provide any kind of support for the new Finnish republic.

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=497600&page=3

July 1, 1911 - Riksdag, Stockholm

The Parliamentary elections of 1911 have proven to be one of the most evenly and competitive in several decades... The General Electorial Union (Moderates) won easily with a representation of 140 in the Lower House and 57 in the Upper House. Arvid Lindman is now going to become Sweden's newest Prime Minister. The Liberals will have 65 seats in the Lower House and 31 seats in the upper house while the SDU will receive 44 in the Lower House and 12 in the lower house.

December 21, 1911 - Riksdag, Stockholm

The Final Parliamentary Session of 1911 ended in violence as one of the Lower House members was murdered by a member of an Imperialist faction that was Pro-German... The Parliament member was given a state funeral and the assassin was sent to the main National Reform House near Stockholm to await trial for Treason, Murder and Conspiracy among other charges. Every national flag in Sweden is now at half-staff yet again. The year to forget for Sweden is about to end with the Beginning of the Great War and the end to the innocent past...

1912 was a relative quiet year on the Swedish homefront excluding the Great War to the East of us and the predicted independence of Finland from the Russian Empire. The assassin behind the 1911 murder was sentenced to life without release. (Sweden has no death sentence at this time.)

December 6, 1913 - Riksdag, Stockholm

The Riksdag's Lower House has passed an Amendment to the Royal Constitution allowing Women to be fully enfranchised... The eligiblity would be for any woman over the age of 21 to vote for and to hold public offices anywhere in Sweden. (Women are only allowed to hold public office when a male public official of the same family or a spouse dies or is judged to be incapable of service before their term of service had ended...)

Greece asks Sweden whether it can construct Zepplin airliner units for Greece. Payment will be upfront. (Sweden has the tech, right?)

The Kingdom is at Tech Level 5, but is not in the Airship business (Germany, USA, Britain are the main ones at this point to do airships...). We are more interested in planes as a possible tool, but then again Swedes have not yet seen too many aircraft yet...

The Kingdom is at Tech Level 5, but is not in the Airship business (Germany, USA, Britain are the main ones at this point to do airships...). We are more interested in planes as a possible vehicular form, but then again Swedes have not yet seen too many aircraft yet...

We are clearly in the throws of one of the coldest Winters on Record especially in the Northern regions and Stockholm had reached its all-time lowest daytime and overnight temperatures on the Winter Solstice of 1915... The Kingdom of Sweden has joined the list of countries that now have universal sufferage for both men and women. The next national election in 1917 will be the first test of this new amendment to the Royal Constitution of 1906.

The 1916 Olympic Games in Stockholm turned out to be far better than anyone could have imagined even if the facilities were not the best considering what happened in the First Great War and its aftermath.

The Elections of 1917 are in June for every seat in both Chambers of the Riksdag and the Ministrial Occupiations.

The Kingdom is announcing that the Armed Forces may need to be reorganized.

June 1, 1917

Prime Minister Arvid Lindman is retained for a Second Term as the Moderates are starting to falling apart a bit due to the issues of Women's Rights and Labour Management-Union relations... The Lower House will now have 113 Moderates, 90 Liberals and 46 Social Democrats. The Upper House will now have 50 Moderates, 35 Liberals, 11 Social Democrats and 4 National Workers' Union members.

OOC: Proposed Build Chart from Economic Thread (Samtonia's Numbers)

The Kingdom of Sweden's 1916 Budget
Population: 5.5 Million
Market Economy Peacetime Growth Rate: 3% per Year
Tech Level: 5
Conscript Forces
Production Centers: Stockholm 6
Resources: Stockholm 7
Energy Resources: 1 Coal and 1 Hydroelectric
Commerce: 3 Shipping Units, 1 Cruise Line, 1 Airline(Zeppelin)
Food Production: 9 Food Production Units
Total Growth: .57 (.14 to Finland)

1916 Income: [53.4 Total Points]
Production Income - 24 Points,
Resources - 9 Points
17 Shipping Units- 3.4 points
5 Oil Tankers
Zeppelin (Airline)- 1 Point
Norwegian Payment: 15
Danish Payment: 16
Turkish Loan Repayment: 1

1916 Costs:
Military Maintenance - 8.4 Points
Level III Social Spending - 1.7 Points
DN Construction (Year 3 of 3): 4
DN Construction (Year 3 of 3): 4
DN Construction (Year 3 of 3): 4
Aircraft Research (36.5 of 100): 6.2
Infrastructure Improvements: 1.1
Transport Group Construction: 3
Transport Group Construction: 3
Heavy Cruiser Construction (Year 1 of 2): 2
Heavy Cruiser Construction (Year 1 of 2): 2
Light cruiser (CL) Construction (Year 1 of 2): 1
Light cruiser (CL) Construction (Year 1 of 2): 1
Destroyer flotilla (DD) Construction: 6
Destroyer flotilla (DD) Construction: 6
Heavy Cruiser Construction (Year 1 of 2): 2
Heavy Cruiser Construction (Year 1 of 2): 2
Destroyer flotilla (DD) Construction: 6
Destroyer flotilla (DD) Construction: 6

January 3, 1920 - Parliament House, Stockholm
Prime Minister Arvid Lindman has just confirmed that he will resign as Prime Minster and be replaced in the Prime Minister's position by Niels Eden (Liberal) for the final 3 years of his term... Lindman resigned due to protests against the hiring of Annette Sonderen to the position of Agriculture Minister. Miss Sonderen would be the first ever woman to be a front-bencher in the Lower Chamber. Lindman will keep his position in the Lower Chamber while becoming the new Home Secretary under Eden's administration.

Johannes Taverna will now be the Interior Minister under Eden for the former Interior Minister Henrik Linderholm was murdered on New Year's Eve by a member of the Royal Worker's Union after a labour dispute when sour in Linderholm's native Malmo...

Prime Minister Rickard Sandler was elected over Niels Eden in a 1923 Landslide victory that changed both houses to a Social Democratic leadership yet most of Eden's cabinet was retained by Sandler's new administration. The Prime Minister promises to return Sweden to its rightful place as a power in Europe and not only in Scandinavia by retrofitting the military and making social reforms.