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This is because "Kingdom of Sweden and Norway" is too long... you can blame the women who did most of the music for this! (she got mad that Oslo was part of Sweden!
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It seems to be more correct to call it Sweden and Norway than just Sweden as they were to seperate and free countries. Oh well... This is what you get when you let them womenfolks vote and own property. They ruin our games' ability to display text properly by having to be factually correct. Who would have guessed...
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07-15-2015, 08:08 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-15-2015, 08:08 AM by Eric.B.)
"On 4 November 1814, the kingdoms of Sweden and Norway formed a personal union under one king. The two countries had completely separate institutions, except for the foreign service led by the king through the Swedish foreign minister."
So the Swedes handled foreign affairs, and the capital was Stockholm. To me this says it's Swedish.
The US is similar. We're a union of "States" which are pretty much their own countries. Each state is ran by their own governments, have their own laws, even had their own currency at one point. Foreign affairs are handled by the Federal government. Thus why we're sometimes referred to as Washington. Being a Floridian, and having nothing but disdain for both Washingtons (the State and DC) I don't mind USA being refered to as Washington.
That's my argument for calling it Kingdom of Sweden instead of "United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway"
But yea...
(Will probably just change it to Sweden-Norway)
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It wasn't a period we look back upon and think "Yeah, we were completely our own country back then". In the context of a game it's quite ok to shorten the name into something more readable, or just dropping Norway in the title.
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