Sweden is OK if you discount the fact that it is essentially a corporatacracy and a welfare state that is inexorably going bankrupt; it has also, like other northern European countries, had an unpleasant history of racism against the new immigrants. When I went there, I found that Swedes also talked in somewhat hushed tones about a few of their ruling families--they have a robust capitalist elite, but are trained from very early on to talk about how wonderful their "3rd path" is, and not to criticize it overly much. But it is a hell of a lot better off than the US.
Regarding pedophilia, in the West, sex with children is certainly a cultist practice in addition to being a great way to blackmail politicians. Pedophilia is one of those thickly-veiled power-saturated practices in the West; in the Middle East and central Asia, it is much more out in the open, so not nearly so much a taboo subject (I have had colleagues who revelled in doing research in the Middle East, because it meant having sex with boys, and getting away with it--apparently a great attraction to many of the Orientalists). I remember an unforgettable story post-invasion in Afghanistan, when the rule of the Taliban had ended, so the poppy crop was booming and the local Pathan warlords were once again to be seen tooling around Kandahar in their cars with their boys
