Have economic/financial power of some sort that is politically conservative.  I don't care to be a big player in this RP at all, even with my putting finland back together nonsense I was keeping to the Scandinavian region in terms of influence.

Which is why Mihndar's suggestion I am seriously considering at this point.

Since I know Norway has oil to sell, a prospect I presume hasn't been butterflied away.  Not sure if the there is a technological limit there, since the RP is currently in the 1980's and Norway found oil around 1963 or so in our world.  Here it might be delayed by a decade, but by 1980 extracting the oil should be plausible.