Finland is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland. The capital city is Helsinki.
History
Alternate Realities
Wildstorm Universe
During the Cold War, the Finnish government established a superhuman army to protect Finland from the Soviet Union. Following the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc, one of Finland's superhumans Lemminkäinen Hämäläinen became a powerful politician in which he took over the nation by affecting the people's minds through his telepathic powers. Under his rule, he forcefully attempted to have the entire Finnish population to be converted into super powered beings after deeming humanity to be an evolutionary dead end. Millions of people did not survived the enhancements while the world remained ignorant due to a formidable psionic field called the "Masking Wall" was erected by a superhuman Finn named Pekka Viljo.[1]
Lemminkäinen's reign came to an end when he was killed by his brother Jukko, whose power inadvertently caused a psionic feedback through Lemminkäinen which affected and decimated the entire Finnish population to less than 2,000. The surviving Finns emerged from the vast cemetery their country had become, reaching Sweden and revealing to the world what had happened in their country.[1] The surviving Finns - all of them superhumans of some kind - decided to leave the Masking Wall up and turn their country into an international haven for refugees, as long as they were willing to learn the Finnish language and weren't superhumans. This meant the Finns themselves would leave - but keep a watchful eye on Finland, and crush anybody trying anything suspicious against their superhuman-free haven.[1]
Since Armageddon, Finland became one of the very few unaffected and safest places on Earth, and housing the largest number of refugees due to the Masking Wall. But unknown to the world, Finland fell under the control of the Knights of Khera after the generator powering the Masking Wall somehow snagged on a quantum tether and opened a rift into the Bleed and out of which emerged the Kheran warship, the Red Blade. The Knights of Khera subjugated Finland, turning it into a brutal military state of the "New Kheran Empire."[2] The High, who had been escorting refugees to Finland, infiltrated the occupied country and learned the Knights' existence before warning Stormwatch of their plans to terraform Earth.[2]
See Also
- Appearances of Finland
- Location Gallery: Finland
- Catalogued images related to Finland