specifically, norway has strong government control over key (if legacy) industries such as oil (including facilities in Brazil, that used to be state-owned), and strong taxation directed towards public services (education, health, social security) in line with social(ist) democracy. it's these social(ist) democratic traits that improve quality of life there, while market regulation of multinational corporations remains a distant dream that risks bringing the whole thing down, not the least because the world's environment doesn't care much about borders