Cashless society is amazing until the foreign shareholders of your core suppliers of digital infrastructure develop their own political agenda.

But Norway is a monarchy well connected with the global Epstein class so I doubt their political system can actually reach an shareholder-hostile edge case. And meanwhile the surveillance helps keeping internal peace because one can reliably deplatform dissenters and conspiracy theorists.

It's a win-win until the n-th generation of nepo children is trying to steal too much and everybody notices they have been robbed.