Electric Bone Flute
Troubadour
I want a land to go the way of the Phoenix; defeated often but rising again, usually with new people, each time, in its history. I'm already stuck with it being a long stretch of coastal land with a few important natural harbors with a climate like Stockholm. I want to know how this could plausibly be so; why doesn't the defeating power of the day come in and take the land itself? Current era is industrial revolution. I want the conditions to be the case so that the land is self-sufficient enough to ape Prussian militarism at the end of the 19th century. I'm not committed to any other resource/geographical features.