~socialistic norway voted best place to live in the world by the UN

norway's government has many socialistic elements and has been rated as the best place to live in the world by the UN, 8 of 10 times between 2001 and 2010:

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/11/norway-tops-un-list-of-best-place-to-live-while-us-jumps-from-13th-to-4th/1#.T544yaSbxTE

according to this data:

http://hdr.undp.org/en/data/trends/

norway has ranked number one on the HDI, every year, since the late 1990's.