Why, though? Are Finland's social, economic, and political ties to the Nordic countries such that they really warrant the design of Finland's focus tree being subordinated to a broader direction for the Scandinavian countries in the game? I imagine
@Fulmen could probably fill us in here, I admit to not knowing much about Finnish history.
I think there is a stronger argument for doing the opposite, that Finland's focus tree should be designed primarily around what Finland will do about the Russian threat. Probably one of these alt-history paths will involve a Scandinavian alliance as one option among many, but I think the Russian angle here predominates over any nordic considerations.
We really don't know exactly how a reworked Soviet tree will look, but there are essentially three possibilities. 1. A reworked tree that only offers different forms of communism or socialism. 2. A tree that offers liberal-democratic, monarchist, and fascist options despite being wildly unrealistic 3. Some combination of the first two. But, regardless of how they actually go, there really is no kind of ideology that would rule Russia that wouldn't be interested in conquering Finland on some pretext or another. On the communist side, Stalin, Trotsky, and Bukharin all would have had a vested interest in conquering Finland.
You have to recall that Finland was part of the Russian Empire, and following the Russian Revolution it had its own civil war between communists and anti-communists, so even a potential communist leader of the USSR not driven so overtly by imperialistic ambition would have a strong ideological motivation to go after Finland.
Finland's choices in a potential focus tree would mainly revolve around how it is going to deal with the threat of Russia. In a communist branch, this would probably just be outright supplication, that by aligning itself with the Soviets that they can pre-empt aggression. In a hypothetical allied branch, I can imagine it would probably involve some tough diplomatic wrangling about how Finland's membership in the allies could pre-empt Russian aggression.
What I'm really most interested in is a more historical option. Being an avid player of MP, it would be nice to see some kind of gimmick or mechanism that gave the Finns a real chance of stopping the Soviets, or at least, some mechanism which incentivizes the Soviet player towards a negotiated peace rather than full blown invasion and annexation, so that the Continuation War can happen. I'd really like to see Finland become a fun and interesting choice for historical MP games more so than it is now.
So the main part of Finland's content really is basically a reaction of sorts to Russia's position and what Russia does. If anything, I think Finland's content would probably suffer from being artificially pigeonholed in with the Nordic countries rather than being jointly developed with Soviet content. I think focus trees for Norway, Sweden, and Denmark can just as well be handled as a country pack like the one we are getting in a few weeks.
