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Nah, Finland is included colloquially. It's like the "never split an infinitive" rule for English, outdated and doesn't work, but people are pedantic about it. The upper 1/3rd of Finland does belong to Scandinavia (geographically) and our second official language is Sweden and we have lots of Finnish-Swedes, as in people who see completely Finnish but natively speak Swedish. A minority, yes, but a few cities are mainly Swedish speaking.
Sometimes they bitch even about Iceland, because geographically its definitely not Scandinavian, but linguistically and culturally, it most definitely is.
Yeah man I had never had an issue with any police and I used to see them quite a lot as a taxi driver.
Once I drove a friend of mine, he just told me he's gonna go kick someone's ass, we drove there, a dude came out in a robe at 5am from an apartment building, my friend punched him in the face, pretty much dropped him but not completely.. But then he just waited there while the other guy called the cops. Didn't mind. The cops asked me, I told them "nah saw nothing" and they were like "gotcha ;>". Honestly too many times they let us taxis slip too easily imo. Even for speeding a few times.
And even when they detained me, they officers broke rules, didn't have a search warrant, but told me I can have my prescription meds as long as I have them in the original packaging and prescription etc. Then at the station I took a nap for 4 hours. Then they come in tell me I'm being arrested instead of detained. I asked why. They don't answer. I ask again. They say I'm being disruptive and haul me to the isolation cell.
Authoritarian as fuck and everyone is such a rulewhore bootlicker when it comes to authority, but not when it comes to anything like feeling duties towards family or your so.
In feels like finns genuinely don't understand what having principles means. "Reassurance" doesn't really even translate to Finnish.
Don't believe the "happiest country in the world" bs btw. You might not have to live on the street, but... that too might be changing seeing where the government is going.