Editing Pirates of the Baltic Sea (section)

===Finland===

The eastern neighbor of Åland, with a population of five and a half million. The economy of Finland has a per capita output equal to that of other European economies such as those of France or Germany. With respect to foreign trade, the key economic sector is manufacturing, with the largest industries being electronics; machinery, vehicles, and other engineered metal products; forest industry; and chemicals.
Finland has a somewhat unusual corporate culture. It has the highest concentration of cooperatives relative to its population, democratically owned by their members. The Buccaneers do not normally target Finnish shipping.

The majority of international cargo shipments are handled at ports. Vuosaari Harbour in Helsinki is the largest container port in Finland; others include Kotka, Hamina, Hanko, Pori, Rauma, and Oulu. There is also passenger traffic from Helsinki and Turku. The Helsinki-Tallinn route is one of the busiest passenger sea routes in the world. Outside of the inner city, much of Helsinki consists of suburbs separated by patches of forest. The City of Helsinki has about 11 000 boat berths and possesses over 14 000 hectares (54.1 square miles) of marine fishing waters adjacent to the Capital Region. Some 60 fish species are found in this area and recreational fishing is popular.

====Helsinki====

The capital and largest city of Finland, with a population of over 1.5 million people in the Greater Helsinki metropolitan area. Helsinki has one of the world's highest urban standards of living. Called the "Daughter of the Baltic" or the "Pearl of the Baltic Sea", Helsinki is on the tip of a peninsula and on 315 islands.

As the crossroads of many international ports and having Finland's largest airport, Helsinki is the global gateway to and from Finland. Foreign citizens make up nearly ten per cent of the population. The Port of Helsinki is the busiest passenger port in the world and the main port for foreign trade in Finland.

Buccaneers usually visit Helsinki only if they have specific business there. If they need something from the mainland, Stockholm and Turku are a lot closer. But it is not uncommon to have business in Helsinki. 83 of the 100 largest Finnish companies have their headquarters in Greater Helsinki, and occasionally some of these – mainly the cooperatives - wish to discreetly obtain the services of the Buccaneers.

====Turku====

The closest Finnish city to Åland, with a population of 200 000. Turku is the oldest city in Finland and a former capital. Located at the mouth of the Aura river, Turku is spread over both banks of the river.

Turku has been officially declared the "Food Capital of Finland", because it holds a number of Finland's oldest and most high quality restaurants, and a historically famous fish market held twice a year. The word turku originally meant “market place” and still does in some Finnish dialects.

The city is a renowned high tech centre. The Turku Science Park hosts over 300 companies from the fields of biotechnology and information technology, as well as several institutions of higher learning that work closely with the business sector.
The Port of Turku spans a wide area on the southern coastline of the city. Because of the port's location at the southwestern corner of Finland the harbour provides the most efficient route to serve the Baltic Sea. Turku Harbour is one of the most important shipment points in the country, handling over four million tons of cargo and a corresponding four million passengers per year.
Turku has a history of industrial shipbuilding, but the shipyard there specializes in huge cruise ships and ferries, and is of little interest to the Buccaneers.

Turku is also the home port of Boat Club Sea Devils that the Buccaneers have a conflicted relationship with.

====Navy====

The Finnish Navy has 250 ships in one naval fleet, the Coastal Fleet. The fleet is based in Turku, which is also the location of Navy Command headquarters. And Turku is on the Finnish coast, right at the other end of the Åland Archipelago. Meaning that the Finnish Fleet is right next door to the Buccaneers. 

In addition to the base in Turku and the Naval Academy in the capital, the Finnish Navy has two more bases on the coast of the Gulf of Finland. One is the base of the Coastal Brigade, a brigade-level unit responsible for amphibious warfare, naval reconnaissance and special operations of the Finnish Navy. The other is the Swedish-speaking Nyland Brigade, or Nylands Brigad in Swedish. The Brigade trains troops for combat in coastal environments. It also trains personnel for the International ATU unit (Amphibious Task Unit), which is a special crisis management force that can be employed in coastal environments. While both the Coastal Brigade and the Nyland brigade are infantry-based, they are capable of posing a threat to ships. Their armament includes both truck-mounted and infantry-carried anti-ship missiles and coastal missiles.

The core of the Coastal Fleet is four multi-purpose frigates and eight missile boats, with about twenty mine layers and mine sweepers. Finns could easily and swiftly block sea approach with mines. The rest of the fleet is mostly transport vessels and auxiliary craft that include among other things three Pollution Control Vessels. But of greatest concern to the Buccaneers is that out of the entire fleet, close to 200 ships are Landing Craft. They could easily transport the entire complement of Finnish Marines – two Coastal Jaeger battalions. The worst nightmare the Buccaneers have of provoking a conflict with Finns is not the frigates, but waking up to find Coastal Jaegers swarming all over the place.

Buccaneer wisdom on Finnish Navy: “Piss this bunch off and the Coastal Jaegers come over and announce that they are here to drink vodka and kick ass, and they are already out of vodka.”