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Finland's new national emoji include a heavy metal guy and a Nokia 3310

Finland's new national emoji include a heavy metal guy and a Nokia 3310

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Finland, that northern European haven of moose, death metal, and milk, has just become the first country to create a set of national emoji. More than 30 Finland-specific emoji will be available to download on the web worldwide on December 30th, The Guardian reports.

So far Finland's foreign ministry has teased just three emoji in the set: a Nokia 3310 (so sturdy, so strong), a headbanger (Finland has the most heavy metal bands per capita in the world), and a pair of naked people getting steamy in a sauna (ditto for saunas).

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If there's one thing these emoji will tell you about the Finnish, it's that they have an amazing sense of humor. On Finland's website, each emoji is paired with a caption about the choice to include it. Here is how the sauna emoji is introduced:

The Sauna. Doesn’t need introducing. Sauna is as Finnish as it gets. Naked.

And here's how the headbanger is described:

The Headbanger. It is dark in Finland and so is the music. There’s a small headbanger living inside of each Finn.

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The emoji will be released as part of a digital advent calendar, which you can find right here, with one new emoji revealed each day in December.