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Vantaa started to decline around late May because most of the new residents only visited once or twice, and nearly all of the active residents moved to other towns. This caused the town's population to shrink from 18 to 5 in just a few weeks. This technically made Vantaa a one man-town, though there have almost always been other people registered as residents. In late June, a demolition project of incomplete abandoned houses begun. On June 27, s1s1l1sko was named the new mayor, because MaxFI tried to take over [[Szczecin]], where the mayor was going to be deleted in the next days. MaxFI didn't get the town and returned as the mayor of Vantaa two days later on June 29.  

[[File:VantaaNightView.png|thumb|350px|A night view of Vantaa on September 11, 2019]]

On July 26 the new Päijänne Tunnel was built, connecting Vantaa and the lake Päijänne to the Baltic Sea, therefore easening transportation of goods. On 10 September a beacon was installed under the lake, being the second in Finland after Tampere. On 23 November, an iceroad connection to [[Lutkula]] was built.

Porvoo was a seaside town located close to Vantaa. It was founded on February 3 2019, and like in real life, it was one of Finland's oldest towns. The long-time mayor of the town was Myyreli. The town originally was a part of the nation of [[Norrland]], but joined Greater Finland as soon as it was founded. The town then experienced large population growth, but soon fell into inactivity. Porvoo was notably visited by the Russian youtuber Канал Кейна (Kanal Keina) in a video released on 13 May (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7lTQo_aKBk, starting from 12:00).

MaxFI had for long in his mind to annex the town of Porvoo, and it was originally supposed to disband between June 27-June 29. He had even claimed land to the town's border. However, even after the mayor had been removed from the town, he as well as the last resident came back online on June 26, just before the town was about to fall. This delayed MaxFI's plans by nearly 2 months. On August 22, the town finally disbanded, and was annexed by Vantaa on the same day. This officially made the town a coastal town. On 5 September a new metro branch to Porvoo was built from the Vantaa main station. For many months, Porvoo was pretty much in the same state as it was when it fell, except for the iceroad and an above ground-road built from Vantaa. Lately some work has been done, including building an iceroad bridge to [[FixedMines]] in [[Terra Mariana]] and renovating griefed and incomplete houses.

MaxFI renamed the town from Vantaa to Lahdenpohja on January 16, 2020. As the town's location wasn't accurate to the city with the same name in real life, he had for some time considered to rename it. He came up with the name Lahdenpohja (The bottom of the lake) because it reflects the town's physical location. However, in real life there's a town with the same name in the region of Karelia which Finland lost to the Soviet Union in the 40's. For some time this was the main reason why he didn't rename the town. However, he later heard that his town would possibly be the future capital of the nation and found out that there's a village called Lahdenpohja in the town's real life area. He thought that if the town would become the nation's capital, it would need a more "neutral" name. Lahdenpohja now seemed even better of an option since of the real village. The flag, which is based on the coat of arms of the real life Vantaa, was kept though.

On February 2, MaxFI had enough of his nations inactivity and decided to join the active nation of [[Finland]]. The decision was a bit hard because of his high rank in the nation and its long history. MaxFI probably could have even easily become the nation leader. But he thought that it would be useless to have two nations in Finland and changed his mind about leading the nation. Another reason was that Finland's capital, [[Jyväskylä]], was located right next to Lahdenpohja.

==Attractions==

===The Museum of Lahti===

The museum is the oldest remaining building in the town's northern part. It was originally named as the town hall, but the title was given to the large house next to it in March 2020. The museum contains flags and maps from raiding trips and a map of southern Finland. On November 9, 2019 an underground expansion of the museum was opened.         

Somebody built a small house on top of this hill and steps leading to it before MaxFI's arrival to the area. The house had been griefed and the ruins were later demolished by the town, but the steps still remain today. They are the oldest known structure in the town's northern part and a prime example of ancient ruins in Finland. On 17 February 2020, MaxFI found a hidden basement deep under the hill. It was probably built by the same person who built the house. On 23 September 2021, a memorial was built on the site using oak wood, the same material the original house was built of.  

[[File:2019-06-25_13.37.51.png|thumb|The road through a tree (25 June 2019)]]

This is the only road that goes through a tree in Finland and probably the entire server.       

===The museum ship Sampo===

The historical museum ship Sampo sits in the town's harbor. It's unknown how it has been transported there, since the center of Lahdenpohja is only connected to the sea by a small tunnel.

PewDiePie's beloved former pets Joergen #2 and Water Sheep have come back to live on EarthMC, with Lahdenpohja as their home. Sadly Water Sheep passed away on an unknown date of March 2020, but he will never be forgotten.

[[File:VantaaCastleComplete2.png|thumb|The Castle on 28 December 2019]]

On July 29 construction of the castle began on top of the town's highest hill, west of the town centre. However, for months, the only thing that had been built was its base. The castle truly started taking shape on November 17. Outside work on the castle was completed on December 28 2019. An expansion was completed on January 26 2020. The tower built on the main building's roof was completed and the Finnish flag was raised on January 28. The castle is by far the largest building in the town. The new castle base with large plazas and new towers was completed on 3 April 2020. The new area also hosts a garden, which is in the western side of the castle.

MaxFI built a giant statue of himself on December 6th, the same day he slightly changed his skin. The statue is located on the shore of lake Päijänne.

Finland Tower is the tallest building in the town and one of the tallest in Finland, at 89 meters tall. The tower was completed on 30 January 2020. It was mainly built with white glass blocks and blue stripes, symbolizing the flag of Finland. The tower has an iceroad station connected to the international iceroads. It also hosts the town's central [[FTN]] (Finnish Transport Network) station.

[[File:Porvoo lighthouse.png|thumb|The Porvoo lighthouse on 2 May 2020]]

The Porvoo lighthouse is believed to be the oldest standing building in the town's entire area and among the oldest in Finland, being built in February 2019. Even though it's very simple, being built mostly with cobblestone, it's an iconic landmark of the town of Porvoo.

The Radio Towers pay a homage to the iconic radio masts in the real-life Lahti. Located in the new residential district of the town, they are 80 meters tall each. Construction began on April 2, 2021 and was completed on April 4.

The Lake Tower is the tallest building in Finland, at 112 meters tall. It is located on the shore of Lake Päijänne, on top of the entrance to the Päijänne Tunnel. Construction began on September 27, 2021 and was completed the following day.

Lahti has a whopping total of 5 separate ice road stations, each on a different level. Thanks to them the town is well connected to the rest of Europe. The stations can be divided into the old stations accessed from an elevator next to the Museum and the new stations located at the Finland Tower.

The first station of the town was the Greater Finnish iceroad station. It was opened on April 30th, 2019 and is located at the Y level 15. From this station you can access most of the Greater Finland's cities like Tampere and [[Kekkoslinna]]. You can go all the way to Murmansk on the Arctic coast.

The second station was opened on 23 November 2019 and is located at the Y level 2. It connects to the town of Lutkula (later Joensuu) which is now called [[Varkaus]]. Through there there is a connection to the former capital of [[Finnmark]], Inari.

The International Ice Bridge (Later named Allegro after the bullet train between Finland and Russia) was built completely by MaxFI and opened on 13 January 2020. It was located at the Y level 126 and was 1,3 kilometers long. Through here you can access Russia and many other parts of Eastern Europe. On 23 April, 2021 the ice bridge was moved underground and the station at the Finland Tower was closed. The new station is located between the Radio Towers at the Y level 20.

The ice bridge between Porvoo and [[FixedMines]] was built by J1K and it opened on 27 December 2019. It was later extended to Lahdenpohja on 5 April 2020. The station is located at the Y level 66. At FixedMines you can access the [[Connect TM]] network that goes to [[Terra Mariana]] and [[Sweden]].

On July 27, a shop with the name Jumbo (referring to an irl shopping mall in Vantaa) was opened in the city's metro station. The company's factories are located in Lahti and its main products are pork chops, villager products and XP bottles. On October 11, a second branch was opened in [[Mergopolis]], [[Oceania]]. (later [[Solomon State]]). However, when the sign shops came back up on December 6, the location was moved to [[Caracas]], [[Venezuela]] because of the local leader Ian's spawnkilling. On 14 Februrary 2020, the company bought a new plot in Finland's capital [[Jyväskylä]] and the shop was moved there when the sign shops came back, with the location in Lahti getting closed. The shop was later moved to Helsinki because the capital and /n spawn of Finland was moved there. The Caracas store was also temporarily closed due to the Venezuelan war. The store is now located in Caracas because the /n spawn was moved to Jyväskylä where the former store had been demolished. The /n spawn is now back in Helsinki but MaxFI has lost access to the former store there.  

==Notable people==

* s1s1l1sko, a former mayor of the town.[[File:VantaaSijainti.png|thumb|350px|The location of Lahti in Finland.]]

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