Comment by Yrlec

Sweden is a really amazing country! In addition to being a well functioning democracy it also has these features:

* A flourishing market economy that has created everything from IKEA and H&M to Spotify and Skype.

* Free health-care

* Free college education

* Low corruption

* A well functioning justice system (practically no patent trolls!)

It certainly has it's problems but compared to other countries it is truly amazing how it has managed to balance social well-fare and capitalism.

Disclosure: I am Swedish.