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Liberal Democracy's Swedish Fairytale: A slant-eyed perspective on Stieg Larsson's Millenium ("Lisbeth Salander") Trilogy

Human society is a collection of good gals and guys doing their jobs with honesty and vigour. There are a few bad guys determined to ruin this ideal state. They mostly succeed, but for the superheroes who circumstantially come together and foil the designs of the evil-doers. I know this sounds like the description of a comic book plot, but this is the explicit philosophy driving the various plots and sub-plots of all the books in Stieg Larsson's Millenium Trilogy .