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[Tellemurius]

Err, Belarus, hows your leader going?

[TolyK]

Err, Belarus, hows your leader going?

shitty as usual.
 
I don't go into politics.  It's a damn waste of time here.

hope I get to go back to the good 'ol US soon...

[Lysabild]

I'm Swedish
However, you're assuming "Svea" doesn't mean anything, which it of course does; the origin for Swede (and Svear) is hypothesised to mean "one's own people". Thus, Sweden would be "[land/realm/substantive referring to them living there] Of One's Own People". Sverige would as well, though with a clearly stated, rather than implied, "realm" bound into the word.
Norge I might very well be wrong about, though. I simply assumed the "rge" was the same as in Sverige, which (as you know) would have made it "the Northern Realm".

Almost all people have named themselves "The people" in their own ancient language, And I don't think the name Sverige when it was made was meant as that though, The people was established, in Old Norse I don't think they thought "Ones own people" When they refered to themselves anymore, so while that may be a complete translation I'd say that in practice it simply means Realm of the Svear.

However that's merely a danes interpretion of it

[Hairywoodenleg]

its real name is Suomi which could mean "scale" or it could come from a personal name Suomi.

Actually it doesn't mean "scale" but "[He/she] whipped" which doesn't make any sense (but is dwarfy). One theory is that it's an old Baltic loan word meaning "land" but no one really knows.

[Erkki]

Yep, Finland is Suomi in Finnish, originally probably from the word "suo" (swamp) or from baltic zveme, then being "swampy", "swampy land" or "land where people live" - no one really knows.