Rankings (particularly by ideological organizations) need to be taken with a large grain of salt, but Heritage has a ranking of regulatory/economic freedom of d

Rankings (particularly by ideological organizations) need to be taken with a large grain of salt, but Heritage has a ranking of regulatory/economic freedom of different countries: https://www.heritage.org/index/ranking https://www.heritage.org/index/ranking In it, Denmark > Sweden > Norway > Germany > USA >>> France. The low ranking of the US in particular might be for partisan reasons (i.e. intentionally overstating regulatory burden), but Scandinavian countries, although having large governments, typically have relatively low and transparent levels of regulation and efficient tax systems.