There has been fallout from the release of the Epstein files around the world, and though seemingly no region’s elites have been immune, Norway has been hard hit.

Maybe that'll dampen some of the gushing over Norway as the perfect social democracy. Once the veil is lifted, its leaders are mired as deeply in corruption as the rest of the first world countries.

Yet I doubt that'll ever trickle through to those countries-by-corruption indices.