It isn't disingenuous at all if you compare per capita metrics. Yes, you may have to exclude some very anomalous countries that have models that couldn't scale

It isn't disingenuous at all if you compare per capita metrics. Yes, you may have to exclude some very anomalous countries that have models that couldn't scale - Luxembourg for instance - but a country like Sweden is a mix of cities, suburbs, and rural areas with a mix of primary resource production, manufacturing, and services. It's big "enough" that you would expect normal country scaling laws to apply.