| Official Language | Swedish |
| Capital | Stockholm |
| King | ??? |
| Prime Minister | Fredrik Reinfeldt |
| Currency | Swedish Krona |
Sweden, officially the Empire of Sweden (Swedish: Imperiet Sverige). It occupies the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe, surrounded by the Arctic Ocean and North Sea. Its capital city is Stockholm.
The Great Northern War (POD)
Charles XII acceded to entreaties of Poland-Lithuania in 1700 to broker a peace with Russia in the Great Northern War. Under advisement of Bengt Gabrielsson Oxenstierna, who had served as advisor on foreign affairs to his father Charles XI, the Treaty of Königsberg was signed, granting the Tsar of Russia navigation rights of the Neva river, and bringing an end to the Great Northern War.
Daughter wars would flare later in the century as a result of the poorly worded treaty, but were as quickly resolved, Charles XII and later his brother Ulrik I often known as the Arbiters of Europe.
Russian Alliance
In 1702 Ulrik was married to HIH Natalia Petrovna, Grand Duchess of Russia. Natalia Petrovna was the second surviving child of Peter the Great and Eudoxia Lopukhina. With their marriage Sweden and Russia entered into a long period of detente.
When Peter asked for Swedish help in conquest of Crimea, Charles XII was more than happy to oblige. During the course of the war Ulrik ruled as regent, and authorized the construction of the Russian exclave of Saint-Petersburg in Swedish Ingria, which was later granted a corridor territory to the Baltic.
Charles was critically wounded during the Russo-Krimean War (1701-1709), and while returning to Sweden in 1706 for extended convalescence succumbed to gangrene, and died as his ship left port in Saint-Petersburg.
With a carefully negotiated treaty King Ulrik I negotiated a long-standing right of way with Russia, allowing them access through the Baltic to the North Sea, provided they made no land grabs along the Baltic coast. The Treaty of Nystad lasted for all of Ulrik I's reign and into the reign of his son, Ulrik II.