Estonia (Nuclear Apocalypse: 2014)

Estonia (Estonian: Eesti), officially the Republic of Estonia (Estonian: Eesti Vabariik), is a island country located in the Baltic Sea.

Across the Baltic Sea lies Sweden in the west and Finland in the north. The territory of Estonia consists of a main two islands and a estimated 2,000 islands in the Baltic Sea, and is influenced by a subarctic climate. Ethnic Estonians are a Finnic people, sharing close cultural ties with their northern neighbour, Finland, and the official language, Estonian, is a Finno-Ugric language closely related to Finnish and the Sami languages, and distantly to Hungarian.

History
The territory of Estonia has been inhabited since at least 6500 BC, with Finno-Ugric speakers – the linguistic ancestors of modern Estonians – arriving no later than around 1800 BC. Following centuries of successive German, Danish, Swedish, and Russian rule, Estonians experienced a national awakening that culminated in independence from the Russian Empire towards the end of World War I on 24 February 1918. After its successful democratic rule, the Era of Silence had made Estonia increasingly autocratic. During World War II, Estonia was occupied by the Soviet Union in 1940, then by Nazi Germany a year later and was again annexed by the Soviets in 1944, after which it was reconstituted as the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic. Following the loss of its de facto independence, an government in exile functioned. In 1988, during the Singing Revolution, the Estonian Supreme Soviet issued the Estonian Sovereignty Declaration in defiance of Soviet rule, and independence was restored on 20 August 1991. Since restoration of its independence, Estonia is a democratic unitary parliamentary republic divided into two counties. Its capital and largest city is Kuressaare. With a population of around 55,000, it is one of the least-populous member states of continental Europe.

On 9 September 2014, NATO would engage in a nuclear exchange against Russia and her allies following NATO's intervention in the Black Sea. Although Estonia did not send any ships into the Black Sea, the nation was nonetheless struck by Russian ICBMs, killing nearly the country's entire population. The government, along with many civilian survivors, would seek refuge on the islands of Saare and Hiiu. Like many other sovereign states that survived the Nuclear exchange, electricity was rendered useless and many would be isolated.

Government
Estonia is a unitary state and a parliamentary constitutional republic. The current president is Kersti Kaljulaid, who is also the nation's first independent female head of state.