If you want to talk about public decrees, how soon do you think the Swedes would be stoning people to death for saying the wrong thing, imprisoning women for getting raped, killing family members for having sex with foreigners, cutting off little children's hands for stealing, et cetera et cetera -- that's all publicly well and good with these people.
And that's the Middle Eastern countries, which have some semblance of government, many African countries are way more fucked up.