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Wouldn't federal states often prefer to have the capital situated in an area with "special status" - i.e. outside the territory of the "old gang" (like Washington D.C.) - in this ATL meaning Göteborg being its own Capital Zone/Stat/Province?

Regards

Steffen Redbeard

Quite so - that was the reason for my picking Göteborg. It should actually consist of parts of all three countries, i.e. of old, like made up in the 1985 municipalities change.
Like this

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[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]1990 The census of the Scandinavian Union:[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Sweden:10 mill. Norway:4,8 mill. Denmark:5,5 mill. Total:20,3 mill.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]As the economic crisis wears off its time to spend some time dining out. With the influx of New Orleans musicians came the New Orleans cuisine to supplement the traditional Scandinavian cuisine, the Creole of the West Indies, the North Atlantic meat-heavy dishes, West African, Indian and Papua as well as Pacific cuisines. The Russian refugees made for the Russian cuisine being established too. Going through the restaurant quarter along the quays of Göteborg you'd get to inhale the mouthwatering odour of half the world. You'd get to taste the meat of any animal living in cold or warm sea, on the ground or in the sky from the Arctic through temperate, sub-tropical and into the tropics. All sorts of fruits and vegetables and it be fried, cooked or grilled with garlic, curry or chilli's. You order – we serve. And its all, except the New Orleans cuisine been here for a hundred years![/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The Cameroon census:[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]15 mill.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]As Persia continue the support of Kurds in the Ottoman Empire the Ottoman army is moved up to the Persian border. St. Petersburg Republic and NEEC quietly support the Ottoman Empire. Persia scale down its support of the Kurds and the crisis cools down.[/FONT]


[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]1991 Prince Frederick Charles Georg graduate the University of Hanover and is sent on a tour of the Union to make himself familiar with his future Kingdom.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]A manned satellite is launched from the Carolinas. The FGN pilot is merely a passenger as the vehicle obits the Earth. The experience gained is used for the planning of another larger vehicle with room for two pilots. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The audience gained television broadcasting of the launch and later landing in the Pacific of the satellite is a tremendous boost in FGN, Scandinavian Union and Britain to the programme. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]All sort of wild schemes is aired for manned space flight and colonization of the Universe.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The Ottoman Empire accuse Persia of supporting Kurdish rebels, sheltering them on Persian territory. PSC tries to mediate the conflict but no result is obtained.[/FONT]
 
Wouldn't federal states often prefer to have the capital situated in an area with "special status" - i.e. outside the territory of the "old gang" (like Washington D.C.) - in this ATL meaning Göteborg being its own Capital Zone/Stat/Province?

Regards

Steffen Redbeard

As already stated yes, but thinking about our royalty it wouldn't be seen as a federal capital - well it is, but would not - federality being reserved for republicstans etc. And OTL they wouldn't move it! :eek:
But having someone in the seat with a sense of uniting the peoples would definately help as is in here. :D
But I frankly don't think they would create a new "land" for it. That would be against tradition. But a large municipality, yes. But then perhaps a slightly enlarged Baahus/Bohus Le/än.
 
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]1992 The bridge across the Great Baelt is finished and opened to traffic.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The second manned space vehicle is launched. [/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]This time it is manned by one FGN pilot that is able to control the vehicle. Most of the manoeuvring is still done from the Space Centre in Bavaria however. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]As manned space flight is now possible discussions on what to do next is held. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]It is decided to go for a landing on the Moon.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Ottoman Empire troops venture into Persia to hit back at Kurdish rebels. Persia protest the incursions and mobilize troops at Tabriz. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]PSC manage to cool the conflict and winter helps too.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]1993 The bridge across the Oeresound is finished. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The bridges shorten the time of transport through the Scandinavian Union. A new express train going from Göteborg to Hanover is put into service. [/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Come spring the Ottoman army are mobilized and launches an offensive into Persia. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Moving against Tabriz north and south of the Lake Urmia the Persian army is slowly pushed back. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Ottoman air force planes interdict the Persian line of communications to Tabriz and bomb Tehran. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]A massive Persian air attack is able to take out the Ottoman airbase at Kyzyl-Su. [/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]In late April the Ottoman army is able to move into Tabriz. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Adding in small scale to the Ottoman war effort is the Turkmenistan army that keep up a border skirmish with Persia tying up some Persian units. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]PSC tries to mediate an armistice but neither side is ready for this step. Keeping the pressure on Persia the Ottoman Empire reopen the offensive in May moving out of Tabriz going for Caspian Sea shore with a diversion attack aimed at Tehran! [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Making the wrong decision the Persian army concentrate on defending Tehran and the Ottomans are able to push through to the Caspian Sea at Astara. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The Ottomans then declare themselves ready for the mediation of PSC to bring an end to the fighting. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]A cease-fire is agreed upon but following the agreement the Shah of Persia is deposed by a military coup.[/FONT]
 
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]1994 At the turn of the year 1993 due to the newly built bridges a new trend emerged among the Scandinavian bourgeoisie – going by train from Göteborg to Hanover, Vienna, Paris, Rome, Budapest or the Adriatic celebrating New Years Eve and then to awake in another part of Europe. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The adventurous goes east visiting Warsaw and devastated St. Petersburg Republic Russia raising itself from the dust only to dump yourself at some relatives Russian mega-farm and party at almost no cost with every temptation you'd ever dream off possible. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]As the railway was rumoured to be secure the Scandinavian peasants wives went into Russia too and this kind of entertainment abruptly ended.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The third manned space vehicle is launched crewed by one FGN and one British pilot it orbits the Earth. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Aboard the vehicle is a television camera and later a film made by the camera is shown which is a huge success.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The Persian army open an offensive to push Ottoman Empire forces out of Persian territories. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The Ottomans are not to be dislodged and its Turkmenistan ally aided by Ottoman officers and troops and a rebuilt air force is able to launch a limited offensive out of Ashkhabad if only to show teeth.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Within a week the Persian offensive is grinding to a halt and within two the Ottoman army is able to take the offensive and throw the Persians back. Following another mediated cease-fire the Persian junta is overthrown.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Los Angeles is hit by a major earthquake.[/FONT]
 
Does the Union host the Euro 92 Football Championships.? (If there even are such championships)

They might have and then won it! :D

I've stayed away from sports - you have European and World Championships every 2 years and Olympics every four - become rather like empty entrys in my optics. Not that I dislike sports, I run orienteering and stomp the local gravel roads once or twice a week, but...

I would say there are such championships and they probably played a role in making South Africa abolish Apartheid as put forward in another thread, but I decided not to do it. :)
 
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]1995 The complete catalog of Papuan languages is issued by the Scandinavian Science Board of Göteborg, a 136 years after arrival of the Scania in Papua. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]A great achievement but it attends only the interest of a more than limited circle of linguists.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The astronomical and astrophysics division of the Board have quite a popular following.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The fourth manned space flight by one British and one Scandinavian pilot. Following the return of the vehicle the design for the Moon vehicle is intensified. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]It is to be a two pilot vehicle with a orbiter vehicle and a landing vehicle. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The orbiter is to be remote controlled while the landing vehicle goes the last part of the journey. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]When the pilots leave the Moon in the landing vehicle they rendezvous with the orbiter, change vehicle and return to Earth in the orbiter.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]A major earthquake, 7,2 on the Richter scale hits Kobe in Japan. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The damage is so thorough that the Japanese government decide to ask for foreign aid in digging out casualties and later rebuilding the city.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]1996 Queen Margrete falls ill apparently without reason. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]She has developed a cancer tumour in the left side breast. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]At thirty prince Frederick Charles Georg still hasn't married and most peoples worry now about the future of the Union. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The prince is seen as young and hot headed and mostly unfit for ruling a country of prominence and importance like the Scandinavian Union.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]A major earthquake in Lijiang, Yunnan Province, China kills 240, injures more than 14000 and makes hundreds of thousands homeless.[/FONT]
 
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]1997 Queen Margrete is operated having the cancer tumour removed. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]She is in good shape but her peoples worry. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Prince Frederick Charles Georg is showing signs of maturity taking his mothers seat at state councils.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The fifth manned space flight to test the Moon landing and orbiting vehicles. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The test is a success and everything is ready for the go at the Moon. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The flight is scheduled for summer 2000.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]China refuse to renew the lease of Hong Kong and Britain hand over the city.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]1998 Queen Margrete have recovered and is back in business. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]She publicly encourage the prince to marry and secure the royal line. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The prince seems a more responsible character nowadays but still he hasn't showed signs of being interested of marriage. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The boulevard press speculate that the prince is a homosexual but nobody is sure of anything. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]He is often off on trips to the West Indies. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]His interest in this part of the Union is most appreciated but he is rebuked for not taking the situation of the Union serious. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The Queen however strongly support her son.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The Queen is very anxious about help reaching those suffering from natural disasters and encourage her peoples to help anyone in need.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Hurricane Mitch hits Central America with devastating results. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Almost a million is made homeless and 12000 dies.[/FONT]
 
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]1999 Queen Margrete falls ill again. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The cancer metastasis have spread in her body and she is in bad health. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]In November she is able to announce the engagement of prince Frederick Charles Georg to miss Helena Henrietta Frandsen, ph.d. tropical medicine, the beautiful daughter of a immensely wealthy planter of St. John, West Indies. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The young couple have been seeing each other since the princes first visit to the West Indies during his tour of the Union in 1991. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Everything should be just fine except that miss Frandsen is partly of African descend. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Is this an outrage???[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]A major earthquake hit Izmit in the Ottoman Empire killing 17.000 and injuring 44.000.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Macao is handed over by Portugal to China.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]On New Years Eve the fireworks at midnight is the most such burned off in the recorded history of mankind. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The thoughts about leaving a century and entering a new have been many. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Would Satan appear? [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Would Earth disintegrate? [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Enter the fifth horseman? [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Many scenarios were pondered over but the next morning half the world woke with the worst hangover ever.[/FONT]
 
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]2000 The census of the Scandinavian Union:[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Sweden:10,3 mill. Norway:5,1 mill. Denmark:5,7 mill. Total:21,1 mill.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Queen Margrete 3. dies in January and her son an heir Prince Frederick Charles Georg is crowned as King Frederick 8/3/4 of Denmark/Norway/Swedes, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Greenland, The Samí, West Indies, Nicobar Islands and Carolinas. [/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The marriage of prince Frederick Charles Georg and miss Helena Henrietta Frandsen is postponed for the official time of mourning – a year.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]A FGN rocket launched from the Carolinas land a two man crew, FGN colonel Franz Fritzlar and British commander Edwin Monk on the moon after a journey that had millions watching their TV sets. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]After four hours on the Lunar surface the crew takes off in their vehicle only to land in the South Pacific where they are picked up by the Scandinavian Union cruiser Frederick VI and taken to a short press conference at Scania Havn, Papua before taking off from the Scandinavian airbase for London and Hanover.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]In the Scandinavian Union this great achievement was overshadowed by the death of the Queen and the discussing of the upcoming royal marriage.[/FONT]
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It's done! :)

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Thanks for an amazing TL, it's been a great read and I'm kind of sadened now that it's come to an end.

Förövrigt anser jag att Kalmarunionen borde återupprättas! :)
 
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