Here are two links to I think very differing reports into the state of Finland now and its’ prospects for the future. They are both book size and I haven’t read them yet, but for now I’ll post about them with a quote from each preface and come back with a review of both a little later.

Negative

Quasi-Democracy by Katja Boxberg & Taneli Heikka. The book is available free in pdf format.

How was a once prosperous, even innovative, Nordic democracy
reduced into a warning example of econo-political
stagnation?

Positive

Mission for Finland by Demos group with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Go to the website to download the full pdf report also.

Finland is already the best country in the world. Considering its small size,
Finland has an unbelievable array of strengths and opportunities to solve some
of the world’s most wicked global problems. If Finland did not exist, it would
have to be invented. We have a mission.

It should be interesting to read these two together in parallel seeing as they appear to arrive at so different conclusions.