Sweden, land of attractive blondes, Ikea and a model society. Sweden's currently got a population of around 9 million according to the nice men from the CIA; during the 1930s up to the 1970s they had a mass sterilisation program of undesirables: the insane, those with congenital illnesses and presumably the unattractive women and bad Quake players. This ran to a charming half-a-million sterilisations, which given the population of the nation is an amazing figure. An unexpectedly dark heart for a nation. Wiki is full of so much knowledge. Another little gem was the Japanese's:

"Under the colonial Korean Leprosy prevention ordinance, Korean patients were also subjected to hard labor."

Hard labour for lepers seems at once cruel and unusual, while simultaneously hilarious.