Well you cant compare a large sparsely populated agricultural state to a small densely populated and richer nation state such as Finland.
And no offense ment here the problem is the Linus doesn't seem to understand some of the political and social history of the USA which would act against his ideas.
Finland is a little larger than Oregon, and only slightly more densely populated: 16.0/km² vs 15.0/km²; countries as far north as Alaska are generally not "densely populated", but maybe you mentally pictured it to be somewhere in central/western Europe. Homogenity seem more relevant to compare than these factoids, though.
And no offense ment here the problem is the Linus doesn't seem to understand some of the political and social history of the USA which would act against his ideas.