The Post-Apocalyptic Roadmap/Sweden

Part of the Post-Apocalyptic Roadmap Project.

Scandinavia as a whole emerged from the initial strikes more or less unscathed. Sweden was no exception as its neutrality and low population density seemed to keep it off the lists of vital targets. The nation's military disarmament over the last couple of decades also served to lower its threat level internationally, but a lack of trained peacekeeping forces quickly led to smaller cities and towns suffering heavy rioting and looting the initial weeks.

The Swedish infrastructure remains remarkably efficient, with sustainable energy sources already implemented in abundance and several operative nuclear reactors performing at acceptable levels, despite the power plant at Forsmark having been targeted by anti-nuclear activists. Lack of oil resources has led to greatly reduced harvests, and with the attacks on St. Petersburg tainting the fishing waters of the Baltic Sea and much land in the north of Sweden having suffered fallout from Russia, the Swedish production of food is crippled. This has led to strengthened relations with the rest of Scandinavia, to ensure a supply of coal and oil. This has in turn led to fairly strong economic regrowth.

A unified right-wing alliance was voted to power shortly after the war, and has remained in power for an extended period after a parliamentary decision to not hold any elections until the stability of the country could be ensued. As a result of widespread unemployment and a rush of refugees, the right wing Sweden Democratic Party (Svergie demokraterna) was voted to parliament and holds a strong grip on the government. Using accusations against immigrant "terrorists", the right-wing coalition government has been waging a war in the streets, imposing curfew and segregating the population of many areas into urban refugee camps and ghettos. Throughout this effort to "contain our cancer", the government has called a state of emergency, allowing them to field a rejuvenated national army to affected areas as well as to enforce heavy border regulations.

Under the new all-pervasive regime, entities such as the SÄPO (Swedish Security Service) and FRA (Swedish National Defence Radio Establishment) have been consolidated into the new SSP - Svenska Säkerhetspolisen (Swedish Security Police), which acts as an all-surveilling and all-enforcing eye-in-the-sky to silently remove every enemy of the state.