Nyrok City

Nyrok City is a colour comic strip drawn by the Finnish artist Mauri Kunnas from 1975 to 1986, published in the youth magazines Intro, Help!

Thus Nyrok City characters often use open diphthongs (kiäli instead of kieli "language", tyä instead of työ "work"), replace standard Finnish "d" with "r" (homehrutaan instead of homehdutaan "we're getting bored", literally "we're growing mold", rarikaali instead of radikaali "radical"), and use only one "s" in the inessive case (syrjäsä, Suamesa, näisä vanhemisa naisisa instead of syrjässä, Suomessa, näissä vanhemmissa naisissa "far away", "in Finland", "in these older women").

The strip especially poked fun at Hanoi Rocks, Finland's only internationally successful band in the 1980s, who often gave statements of how the rest of the world and Stockholm in particular was better than the Finnish "yokel scene".

Often the central plot of a Nyrok City strip is an international rock star ending up in the middle of a Finnish forest and the "yokel people".

(Keith Richards) ending up in a Finnish forest, and after getting back to the private jet of his band Rolling Stones complaining to his fellow bandmembers how Finland was an awful place because "they only had milk to drink".