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Petsamo (Realistic)

Petsamo, a Finnish city on the coast of the Arctic Ocean.

This is a realistic populated map with a town and a few villages with a functioning basic economy, mostly just basic forestry, small scale agriculture and low level industries relying on those.
The town and villages can sustain themselves on realistic mode and on hard difficulty.

This map took me over an year to make, mostly creating the required buildings. I hope you'll enjoy this as much as I enjoyed making this.



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After WW2 Finland managed to hold on its 'eastern arm', what reaches to the Arctic Ocean. As the region has great potential in terms of mineral wealth and maritime trade over the north-western passage, Finnish state started invest in infrastructure of the region.
This caused the small rural municipality to start growing fast, and to accommodate for the growth, Finnish government decided the split old Petsamo municipality into two: Mining town of Kolosjoki, and City of Petsamo. Granting Petsamo city rights in the process, despite the city having less than 3 800 residents, but it's strategic position at the Arctic Ocean permits status as a city.

The municipality of Petsamo consists of following towns:

• Petsamo
  
• Parkkina (administrative center)

And villages:

• Rajasilta-Vuoremi (near Norwegian border)
  
• Yläluostari
  
• Liinahamari (port)
  
• Rajakylä (near Soviet border)
  
• And a few other settled locations, what are too small to be considered as villages.

As the region is wedged between Soviet Union, and Kindom of Norway, there are following border crossings:

• Rajasilta road border crossing to Norway (open border, without customs required)
  
• Rajakylä road and rail border crossing to Soviet Union
  
• And road and rail connection to rest of Finland.

Finnish geographical institute expects there to be sizeable deposits of minerals, as in the neighbouring Kolosjoki municipality.
The institute believes that Artic Ocean may hold huge oil deposits, potantially granting Finland domestic oil production.
The institute doesn't expect that coal deposits can be found from the region.

Recently SDP, supported by SKP, have won the municipal elections with a landslide, positioning you at the charge of the city.




At the start you will get bombarded by a lot of notifications about citizens not getting this and that, but those will sort themselves soon as citizens take workplaces.
There will also be a major traffic jam due all the personal vehicles going to refuel, but that will also get cleared in a few days.

The border connections in this map are special, the customs houses and connections are placed outside the actual borders, to simulate the vehicles actually traveling outside the borders.
Connections to rest of the Finland and Norway, are just a simple stretch of road and rail outside the borders functioning as insanely fast custom houses with very high throughput.

The border checkpoint at the Finnish side of Soviet and Norwegian border is just for looks (altough, it functions as a police station), the actual 'customs house' is further down by the road, near the map edge.

Border connections can be bit hard to see, so there's a flagpole placed next to the connection to mark the position.


The border to the rest of the Finland has a separate vehicle storage for purchased vehicles.

In this map dollars will be your main currency, as majority of the imports and exports are happening with the rest of Finland.

The geography of this map is rugged and semi-mountainous, with very little amount of flat land, and the resources are mostly hard to access, so despite functioning town and starting infrastructure, this map is challinging to play.

Town of Parkkina contains medium sized construction office, small demolition office and a central storehouses.
Border villages have their own small construction offices.

It is adviced to set some buildings to send their workers to heating plants, to avoid issues arising during winter.

Instad of the usual border creeping, the functioning pre-populated map promotes a realistic growth and expansion patterns, where the functional villages provide great nucleation points for larger settlements.



I will not make an unpopulated version of this map, but if someone wants to clear up the map and to release an unpopulated version, has my permission to do so.
The map is 1:2 scale of the real region based on real height map.