They could do worse ...

Finland loves Donald Duck ... not enough to marry him, but enough to vote for him for president:

Finland's presidential run off elections were a tight race between socialist Tarja Halonen and conservative Sauli Niinasto. It was difficult to guess who would come first, but everyone knew who would come third. Aku Ankka (Donald Duck). Every Finnish election a significant number of Finns write Aku Ankka on the ballot.

Donald Duck first appeared in the US in a Disney movie in June 1934. A Donald Duck comic strip first appeared in Finland shortly after, in May 1936, in Helsinki's main newspaper the Helsinki Sanomat. In December 1951, the parent company of the Helsinki Sanomat, the Sanoma group, in joint venture with a Danish publisher Egmont, started publishing "Aku Ankka", a weekly comic book completely devoted to Donald Duck ...