**Discussion of Finland coffee facts begins at 6:27**

**Discussion of conspiracy theory begins at 10:00**

What if I told you one of the world’s happiest, most peaceful countries… doesn’t actually exist?  I’m talking about the happiest country on earth, Finland.  Land of saunas, coffee, Nokia phones, and endless lakes and forests.   But what if this so-called nation was nothing more than a convenient illusion created to fuel Japan’s love of Sushi and avoid any regulatory oversight?  Today, we’re diving into one of the internet’s strangest conspiracy theories, the claim that Finland… isn’t real.  The land mass we see on maps?  Not even real, that’s just open Baltic ocean. And the people who claim to be Finnish?  They’re just residents of eastern Sweden or Norther Estonia led to believe they reside in Finland.  We’ll trace how this theory started, who supposedly benefits from it, and why thousands of people online actually believe it.  Join us on another deep dive as we try to find out if Finland really exists.

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