I've probably already seen hundreds of map-styled infographics and somehow they all look almost exactly the same: "Western" world is OK/Great Scandinavia is a

I've probably already seen hundreds of map-styled infographics and somehow they all look almost exactly the same: "Western" world is OK/Great Scandinavia is awesome Eastern Europe and Asia always bad, except for a few "west"-centric states, which are good/ok. And the more I see this pattern, the more I come to a conclusion that it could not possibly be a representation of any possible data slice, but rather a sign of some systemic bias.