Your paranoia is not only annoying, but also quite insulting to the researchers involved. Contrary to your perceived 'the Man is holding me down', not everybody

Your paranoia is not only annoying, but also quite insulting to the researchers involved. Contrary to your perceived 'the Man is holding me down', not everybody is out to 'deceive' you. The reason is likely purely functional, as I explained in a comment above, and I'd even agree with the choices of colors of the authors - they show more clearly than the proposed white-red where in the world there is more depression. Furthermore, if you don't believe this particular studies' findings of depression rates, I would invite you to look into the decades of research into suicide rates, depression or just the flow of immigrants from the countries in the red in the map to those in the blue as a proxy for overall happiness and perceived life opportunities, and to draw your own conclusions.