Sapmi Republic (1983: Doomsday)

The Sampi Republic is a survivor nation located in the Kola Peninsula. It has good relationships with Finland, and later the Nordic Union.

Doomsday
When WWIII began on September 26, 1983, Murmansk was targeted and hit by a US nuclear weapon. Murmansk was the site of the world's only nuclear icebreakers. The Soviets launched an invasion of Finland so fighting broke out in Finland and the Kola Peninsula. Soon after the nuclear attacks the Soviet Union collapsed and the Soviets retreated to Siberia.

1984
The Sami people, who were forced to the Kola Peninsula by the Soviets, found that the Soviets were gone. Quickly the Sami declared their independence from the Soviets and established the Republic of Kola. The Sami was then forced to work with Russians living in the area, and tensions soon began between the two factions. The Russians outnumbered the Sami so if war broke out it would be a Russians victory. Balace was settled when Finnish and Sami people escaping the nuclear attacks in Finland settled in the Kola Peninsula. As the Finnish and the Sami had the same amount of people as the Russians both sides backed down from war. The Samis and the Russians had to work together as problems of food, water, and refugees became apparent.

The Finnish-Sami Conference
With the Soviet Union in shatters the Sami had to get food and water for themselves. Luckily for the Sami the North Atlantic Drift kept the seas from icing over so the Sami got water. The problem saw getting the salt out of the water. The Sami also had to get food for its people. Reindeer became the target of hunting as it existed in the Kola Peninsula. Even though some were killed by radiation some were alive and healthy enough to eat. Kola could not keep up with the refugees so the Sami held a conference with Finland. The two nations agreed to help each other solve each others problems. The nuclear attacks on Murmansk poisoned much of the sea so many fish died. The Sami agreed to give fish from the White Sea, which was unpoisoned. The Sami also agreed to get water from the White Sea so the Finnish could remove the salt from it. Some fish and water came from the lakes from Kola but some were poisoned. The Finnish, who could hold more of a population as its lands were larger, agreend to share some of the population with Sami. The Finnish-Sami Conference resulted in good relationships between Finland and Sami.

The Sami Civil War
The Sami Civil War was a war between the Sami Republic and Russian Seperatists under former Soviet General Yuri Trayko (never existed in OTL). Even though the Russians and the Samis had to work together to get through the crisis tensions still existed between them. The Russians in the area thought the Sami were "inferior to the Soviets" and resented them for "created a country under their own banner in Soviet territory." The Soviets still thought that the Kola Peninsula was "there land." Leaders of the Russian faction were led by Soviet General Yuri Trayko. Violence broke out between the Russians against Samis and Finnish. The Sami leader demanded the violence be stopped. Trayko did not stop the violence so on May 8, 1986, the Sampi Republic and Finland declared war on Trayko's faction.