Inspired by Finnish Empire? There's a book called How the Scots Created the Modern World. Its premise is that the Scots, (of said nationality I happen to
be,) are responsible for creating the world as know it. From the steam engine,
James Watt, (not be confused with Ronald Reagan's first Secretary of the Interior of the same name,) to the tea bag, (Thomas J. Lipton.) Did I also
mention the mackintosh, the raincoat? and macadam? the famous road surfacing agent. Would it have been possible for Presbyterian Scotland, as
opposed to Anglican England, becoming the capital of a vast overseas empire?
According to program that aired on TLC a few years ago, England had sabotaged Scotland's imperial ambitions between 1607 and 1707.