A maravilhosa Suécia e seus vizinhos escandinavos, na visão (controversa) de Michael Booth (The Guardian): http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/27/scandinavian-miracle-brutal-truth-denmark-norway-sweden?CMP=fb_gu&commentpage=11

'Effectively a one-party state – albeit supported by a couple of shadowy
industrialist families – for much of the 20th century, "neutral" Sweden (one of the world largest arms exporters)
continues to thrive economically thanks to its distinctive brand of
totalitarian modernism, which curbs freedoms, suppresses dissent in the
name of consensus, and seems hell-bent on severing the bonds between
wife and husband, children and parents, and elderly on their children.
Think of it as the China of the north.'