I created a fictional town called Dammarstad I don't know if that's right either. It would mean Ponds land.
I need to know the grades (if they use A or 10 or percentages), the age they leave school, the years (first grade, high school, primary, etc), if you pay for school and university. If underage drinking and drug use levels are high. Everything teenagers are involved in. The way it looks, mostly small towns. Things about Stockholm.
I think you got the idea.
A Swede would think Dammarstad looks a bit odd, most places in the northern parts of Sweden don't end in stad, especially not small towns, and there are very few cities up north.
Grades are A to F. You can read about the education system here:
http://www.skolverket.se/om-skolverket/a...
The education is free in Sweden, and that also includes universities.
Underage drinking is common, but drug use is very uncommon.
I don't understand what you mean when you say that you want info on small towns, and Stockholm. Stockholm is the capital and has a population of about 800 000.
You want to know 'everything' about Sweden, do you? So we should spend hours writing a comprehensive essay for you, so that you don't need to put in the effort?
Here's a top tip (from someone who has written two novels): you should be very familiar with what you write about, otherwise a) you'll never pull it off, and b) it will always be obviously fake to anyone familiar with the subject. Even if you said you had travelled in Sweden extensively, I don't think that would be quite enough to really understand what goes on there and how people think etc., but at least you'd have a fighting chance. As it stands, you should re-think your plan IMHO.
Why would you want to create a story about Sweden with a fictional town... ? You might as use a REAL town instead. Sweden is the most amazing place and a lot of people even in europe are often mislead to create their own idea of what it is like. It's actually a clash of both worlds... the old and the modern. It's beautiful and the people are beautiful in spirit too
The towns in northern Sweden have often names that are derived from the Sami language or Finnish, or that ends with ?, which is actually a word, meaning a river. Some examples: Haparanda (fi), Kiruna (fi), G?llivare (Sami), Sorsele (Sami), Ume?, Lule?, ?vertorne?.
An important part of writing something major is that you do the research for this.
Sounds like you should at least do a visit.
Rule 1 of writing: write about what you know (or do the research yourself|)
1st rule of writing: write about what you KNOW.
