Sweden

Sweden
Geography
Location	North Europe
Land Area	Unknown
Capital	Stockholm
Admin. Division(s)	Unknown
Political
Government Type	Parliamentary Monarchy
Leader(s)	Unknown
Economic
Currency	Euro (€) (Nuyen (¥) accepted)
Exchange Rate	€ 1 = ¥ 1
GDP	Unknown
Income	€ 41,000 (per capita)
Estimated SINless	10%
Below Poverty Level	8%
Corporate Affilitation	38%
Education	Less than twelve years (10%) High School equivalency (40%) College degrees (37%) Advanced degrees (13%)
Social
Population	10,210,000
Metaype(s)	Human (67%) Elf (14%) Dwarf (8%) Ork (5%) Troll (6%) Other (1%)
Ethnic Group(s)	Swedish (81%) Finnish (5%) Norwegian (4%) Other (10%)
Language(s)	Swedish (97%) Finnish (5%)
Religion(s)	Evangelical Lutheranism (37%) Unaffiliated / Other (13%) None (50%)
Medical
Emergency Service(s)	• DocWagon (DW) • National Medical (unarmed) (NM)
Coverage	Stockholm only (DW) 60% (NM)
Guaranteed Response Time(s)	5 minutes (DW) None (NM)
Other
Notable(s)	Unknown

Sweden is a country in North Europe and a member of the Scandinavian Union.

History

• 2011 - The Black Tide makes large parts of Denmark uninhabitable and destroys many of Norway's oil drilling installations.
• 2015 - Awakened forests erupt in several areas of Finland and Sweden; the largest covers the northern shores of the heavily polluted Gulf of Bothnia.
• 2019 - Telecommunications giants Nokia and Ericsson merge, giving birth to Erika.
• 2026 - Heimdall Security evicts squatters from Freetown Christiania in Copenhagen; it later creates a "free trade zone".
• 2029 - The Crash 1.0 cripples Norway's already-damaged oil- and technology-dependent economy, forcing the country deeply into debt.
• 2031 - Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden unite as the Scandinavian Union in the face of military threats from Russia and to coordinate economic recovery from the Crash 1.0.
• 2031 - Finland nationalizes most of its large corporations.
• 2042 - The Scandinavian Union is pressured into signing the Business Recognition Accords (BRA) with the Corporate Court, but with some important alterations.
• 2058 - The Union and Erika announce the Wireless Matrix Initiative.
• 2060 - The Norwegian shipbuilding and offshore engineering giant Kværner ASA and the shipping and engineering divisions of Mærsk Incorporated Assets merge into one company, Kværner-Mærsk, becoming a world leader in these fields.

Politics

Foreign Relations

• Relations with the Allied German States

Economy

Corporate Presence

• Saeder-Krupp
• NeoNET (Erika, Transys Neuronet Europe)
• Hydrolux Engineering (HQ: Luleå)
• Saab (HQ: Linköping) - traditional Swedish auto manufacturer
• Transoceanic Mining (HQ: Malmö) - underwater mining

Index

• o45457298Dragons of the Sixth World p. 50, 102
• o84296706Germany Sourcebook p. 43
• o42265136Loose Alliances p. 9, 43, 45
• o70096438Shadows of Asia p. 135, 136
• o30783549Shadows of Europe p. 40, 130, 132, 133 (map), 144 - 146, 230
• o34954845Sixth World Almanac p. 49, 51
• o75212693State of the Art: 2064 p. 163
• o76933476System Failure p. 18, 26, 27, 61, 64, 68, 76
• o33031982Vice p. 134

External Links

• This page forked from Wordman's The Sixth World: A geographical index to the world of Shadowrun
• Sweden at Wikipedia
• Scandinavia in the Shadows (unofficial)