Every government treats their people like farm-animals, in my opinion. Some are nicer to their animals than others. “Happy cows make better-tasting milk”, and so on.
My country’s (the US) government treats us like those industrial hog and cattle farms we have in Nebraska, Louisiana, Texas, etc. I moved to the Netherlands in July of '22; people are treated more like free-range live-stock here, which is an improvement from my condition in the US. I imagine it’s not too dissimilar of a relationship throughout greater Scandinavia as well.