 According to Jarla, his original vision for Fingerpori was to create a milieu of an "East German Duckburg", but the current Fingerpori is more like a Finnish town still stuck to the 1970s as in Aki Kaurismäki's films.Although "Fingerpori" contains some political satire, the author claims it is not a political comic strip.The original form of "Fingerpori" was a strip by the same author called "Karl-Barks-Stadt", which won the third prize in the strip category of a Nordic comics contest at the Kemi comics days in 2006.