A.H said:
We have been the soldiers in Swedish uniforms in all their wars! The Finnish culture is alot higher than the Swedish. We have been better soldiers always and
much of our inventions are claimed to be swedish but that's just prpaganda. Little sweds have always been putting us down. So why there's a swede civ but not a Finnish one?
You racist!
Racist? Not quite. Let's take a look at why Sweden was included and Finland was not...
Sweden has existed as a sovereign entity, uninterrupted, since before the Christian invasion. This makes it easy to model a Civ 3 -style civilisation from it.
Before the Swedish conquest, Finland didn't exist as a separate country. There were local polities, but no single political entity to govern them. The state of Finland didn't exist until the 20th century.
Civ 3 is a very war-oriented game and downplays the importance of infrastructure and the complexity of society. This means that countries with a long history of warfare are the most "Civ-worthy". Sweden was a major power with colonial aspirations, giving the modmaker a range of distinctive flavour units or UUs.
Finns did have a good kill record against Viking invaders in the Iron Age, but their campaigns were always limited to protecting their homes. During its history as a province and grand duchy, Finland produced some troops of note, but they were all modeled on foreign military doctrine. In a Civ 3 sense, the most flavourful units emerged only after its independence (the Ski Trooper is the only plausible choice for a Finnish UU: Infantry with Movement 2 and an extra Hit Point).
So, you see, even though modern Finland has more leverage on European matters than, for example, Lithuania or Serbia, it has been a backward and remote province for most of its history. Unless making a modern-day scenario, including Finland doesn't make much sense.