I posted this earlier, which is a tolerable if very truncated summary:
Some notes on the prior history for new readers too lazy to read the previous sections of the AAR, not that I know why I'm doing such shiftless people any favours. The 'Ynglings' are the ruling caste of Norway, originally my ruling family in Crusader Kings. You start in 1066 with two guys, and I ended in 1419 with about 700. Well, if you extrapolate that growth rate, you end up with a few million Ynglings by 1700. Also, because the strils - that is, people who are not Ynglings - were increasingly pushed out of the democratic institutions of Norway by sheer wealth, the Ynglings ended up as a sort of combination of ruling family, warrior caste, and ethnic group. Like the nobles of Poland, the title passes to all sons; in Poland, you ended up with entire villages of peasants all of whom had the right to call themselves noble, but Norway has a colonial empire and won some wars, so the ruling class was able to find land and wealth for most of its sons. However, there were never enough Ynglings to both fight wars and run industries; so there were a few ways for strils to pass into the class, chiefly by volunteering for the army, surviving a tour of duty, and then marrying an Yngling woman. (The extent to which this privilege has been granted has varied with how much the Ynglings have felt under pressure.) Then, from 1880 to 1900 I fought a really, incredibly nasty war with the Belgians, Poles, and British; it ended with the Belgians giving up a lot of land, the Poles my vassals, and the British, damn their lucky eyes, being bought off with a large part of Canada. However, in that process I took two million casualties (and as for what I did to the poor Poles, who refused to give up, you don't want to know) and the Ynglings were finally forced to let all Norse (that's Danes+Norwegians+Swedes+Finns) into their class - or anyway, all those who had fought in the War, which with conscription and incredible manpower scarcity was everyone down to girls of fourteen. This was the Great Emancipation, and it created a class of 'law-Ynglings', as opposed to those who are actually descended from King Olav and are called blood-Ynglings.
Also, if you look near the end of the Vicky thread, you can find some reflections on the political structure of the empire, which you might find useful. Or not.
You could also have a look at post 231 on this page.
Some notes on the prior history for new readers too lazy to read the previous sections of the AAR, not that I know why I'm doing such shiftless people any favours. The 'Ynglings' are the ruling caste of Norway, originally my ruling family in Crusader Kings. You start in 1066 with two guys, and I ended in 1419 with about 700. Well, if you extrapolate that growth rate, you end up with a few million Ynglings by 1700. Also, because the strils - that is, people who are not Ynglings - were increasingly pushed out of the democratic institutions of Norway by sheer wealth, the Ynglings ended up as a sort of combination of ruling family, warrior caste, and ethnic group. Like the nobles of Poland, the title passes to all sons; in Poland, you ended up with entire villages of peasants all of whom had the right to call themselves noble, but Norway has a colonial empire and won some wars, so the ruling class was able to find land and wealth for most of its sons. However, there were never enough Ynglings to both fight wars and run industries; so there were a few ways for strils to pass into the class, chiefly by volunteering for the army, surviving a tour of duty, and then marrying an Yngling woman. (The extent to which this privilege has been granted has varied with how much the Ynglings have felt under pressure.) Then, from 1880 to 1900 I fought a really, incredibly nasty war with the Belgians, Poles, and British; it ended with the Belgians giving up a lot of land, the Poles my vassals, and the British, damn their lucky eyes, being bought off with a large part of Canada. However, in that process I took two million casualties (and as for what I did to the poor Poles, who refused to give up, you don't want to know) and the Ynglings were finally forced to let all Norse (that's Danes+Norwegians+Swedes+Finns) into their class - or anyway, all those who had fought in the War, which with conscription and incredible manpower scarcity was everyone down to girls of fourteen. This was the Great Emancipation, and it created a class of 'law-Ynglings', as opposed to those who are actually descended from King Olav and are called blood-Ynglings.
Also, if you look near the end of the Vicky thread, you can find some reflections on the political structure of the empire, which you might find useful. Or not.
You could also have a look at post 231 on this page.
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