Talk:Norden Incident/@comment-191.54.160.77-20180802221234/@comment-155.4.18.111-20200923050631

"Norden" is also essentially Swedish for ~Nordic region/~Nordic countries as a whole.

The YS region is roughly where realworld Skåne/Scania(and Blekinge) is located(maybe/probably with Småland and Halland added along with parts of Västergötland), an area that was Danish for a LONG time until the treaty of Roskilde 1658 when it became Swedish, after half a century of harsh warfare back and forth across it, where both sides used scorched earth tactics repeatedly, devastating the previously prosperous region.

17th century in this regions is probably the latest that both Sweden and Denmark were seriously vicious and nasty during warfare, caused by the long wars, change of nationality and the snapphane rebellions that followed.

It's one of the things i enjoy with YS, the author or someone nearby has definitely done a HUGE amount of historical backchecking to come up with the alternate version of the world in the series. The region could easily have ended up not changing ownership, just as Norway could easily have ended up remaining Swedish after being forced into a subordinate union with Sweden in 1814 after the Danes ended up on the losing side of the Napoleonic wars. Realworld, when Norway declared independence in 1905, after a national referendum where 368 thousand voted for and a puny 184 voted against, there were notable voices for sending in troops, and one of the primary parties in Norway had previously advocated for shifting towards a "union of equals" instead.