I see. In Finland you basically need to either go to the army for 6/9/12 months, go for civil service for... not sure how long to be honest, I think its 12 months. Or you can go to jail, which I think isn't for too long and Finnish prisons aren't half-bad.
I went to the army thinking thats it's just 6 months... Things never go as you plan though, what a delightful year that was.