Swedish People's Party (Napoleon's World)

The Swedish People's Party (Swedish: Svenska Folkpartiet) was a right-wing nationalist political party that dominated Sweden from the mid-1930s until 1975, controlling both the Presidency and the Parliament (Swedish: Riksdag) for the entirety of that period. Though not an outright dictatorship, the SFP used numerous vote-rigging and intimidation techniques to stay in power and deployed a paramilitary organization loyal to the party in addition to its influence over the military and security services, including the infamous, shadowy Information Bureau, or IB. Key to the SFP's dominance was President Anders Haglund, who won five straight elections to six-year terms as President from 1944 until he retired, aged 88, prior to the 1974 election, in which a non-SFP candidate, Janne Ekhart, won in a major upset. Haglund governed Sweden uninterrupted along with his close confidant at Prime Minister, Lars Baldersson, who served in that position from 1950 to 1971, when he died shortly after winning yet another rigged parliamentary election. The defeat of SFP in 1975 by a broad coalition of liberal, populist and social democratic parties is widely viewed as the rebirth of democracy in Sweden.

Despite being a party of the right, the SFP deftly created a large welfare state and subsidized Swedish industry both through cash payments and a complex system of tariffs and foreign investment tax credits, allowing Sweden - already untouched by the European wars of the 1930s and 1940s - to become one of the wealthiest, safest countries in the world by the early 1970s. The SFP, especially Haglund and foreign minister Peter Uhlen, also cultivated relationships that allowed them to remain neutral in the Cold War, enjoying healthy dialogue with both the French and US blocs in global affairs. At their zenith in the late 1960s, the SFP saw to it that Sweden deployed the largest air force in northern Europe and even briefly worked on a nuclear weapons program that was suspended due to cost shortly before losing power.