You forgot to mention that Sweden benefits from a stable global system, without paying the price of membership. Name one country Swedes have died to liberate. Like Switzerland, Sweden collaborated with Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, while others did the heavy lifting (and dying).
Many thousands of blocks of Japan homes were destroyed in WWII, so numbering houses by date of construction (or reconstruction) is haphazard, at best. And that's why Cartesian coordinates were not invented in Japan.
The funny thing about Maggie Dumont was, according to Groucho, that she never understood the Marx Brothers' humor. She just said her lines and then awaited her next lines.