Socialist Free Market?

I came across this list of the worlds 10 most socialist countries in the world while researching the relationship between birth rates and economic freedom. What caught my eye was that all 5 Nordic countries were in the list as well as New Zealand and Canada.

New Zealand ranks as number 3 in the the Economic Freedom Index. Canada is number 7, and the Nordic countries all come in very close to USA which is ranked number 17.

The definition of socialism is the public ownership of capital, the very opposite of economic freedom.

It appears that someone is trying to attribute the benefits of freedom to a system that is anything but free.

The socialist fist of coercion

Created by User:KeithTyler. It is a variant of the clenched fist motif which has been widely used by leftist, workers, and liberationist groups since the nineteenth century. The motif itself is not under copyright. - Uploaded by User:KeithTyler, who created this image., Public Domain, Link