Slightly smaller than they were

Land area has shifted minimally, but their populations began to decline almost a century ago.

They also went into near total isolation to avoid the cultural shifts happening to their East and their South.

They still maintain good trade with the rest of Europe.

Did Sweden ever collapse financially. Currently a large influx of migrants are causing a large decline in Sweden's economy.

One of our main processors is Norwegian, even.

Sweden didn’t ever collapse completely, but the migrant crisis produced great economic strain in all of the Scandinavian countries.

Which led to their isolation in the first place.

Ah

This role self-assignment thing is great

interesting roles

thanks

Glad you like it, Socrates.

A great man once said, "It's not dog-whistling, we say the whole thing"

Oh, I figure I should mention that the European Union becomes the European Trade Agreement after the Central European Conflict.

save the bees

bees can be replaced

The bees are not extinct

We did save them

wow socrates

They’re quite rare now, though

bees are really annoying

insects in general

?????

looking forward to the time when we can remove them without destroying the ecosystem

Insects don’t really affect me at all.

bees aren't annoying they're little helpers

until they sting you because they are too stupid to realize you are not a threat

bees rarely sting you

rarely is not good enough

it's wasps that are stinging everyone

bees are less problematic than people

wasps need to go too

Mosquitoes were made forcibly extinct in Africa and the Americas, if that’s any consolation.

That was a fairly recent change, over the span of a year

Started about two decades ago.

wait what

no mosquitoes in america?

you serious?

why haven't we genocided them here yet

he's talking about in his time travel reality