Iceland

Iceland is a secondary location and country within The Suffering. It was the first nation to be almost overrun in Europe, which has mostly been blamed on the waves of migration during late 2021-early 2022. Of the original population, only roughly 0.15-0.20% survived with at least a refugee population of 50-100.

Apocalypse
Iceland did not receive a case of The Plague until September 2021, which was praised due to its closure of all borders except for citizens in Greenland, Scotland and Norway. Its first case was reported in Reykjavik from a refugee woman of Swedish descent. It is believed the woman was originally killed by Icelandic officials but was only revealed by October 2021 that the woman died to the virus and then slaughtered during the reanimation process.

Over the next few days, Iceland saw mass cases and deaths from the refugee population in Reykjavik. Only roughly 50-100 refugees managed to successfully escape and join the later Bassun Colony. A lot of the surviving population came from the cities of Vik, Reykjanesbaer, Husavik and Akureyri. With smaller populations from Reykjavik and Kopavogur.

The original surviving population had about 2,000 survivors, in which the population gradually dropped as the surviving population agreed to kill all undeads on the island. About 20% of the islands undead population died and the city of Husavik was successfully liberated before the surviving numbers decided to set up a permanent colony in West Husavik named Bassun Colony.

In April 2025, the liberated western powers discovered Bassun Colony and offered assistance in liberating the island, but were turned down as the remaining population believed they would eventually die of hunger and natural causes, as seen by undeads stuck in a Husavik mine. Another reason was that they found it useless for a population of a maximum of 800.