I get where you’re coming from, but there are a couple things to consider:
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There may be fewer options for picking jurisdictions which have better-than-average privacy and censorship laws outside of “the west”.
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If you’re concerned with the 14+ eyes intelligence agencies identifying you, using a measly VPN service is unlikely to be much help. You may have better luck with Mixnets like Tor, but if you’re being targeted by such powerful adversaries there’s really nothing you can do that’d provide a good chance at anonymity.
If you’re still set on using a VPN, perhaps Switzerland’s ProtonVPN or Gibraltar’s IVPN are preferable to Sweden’s Mullvad. I’m not sure about Gibraltar but Switzerland definitely seems to lean towards the “the west” and has worked with American intelligence before, but they may be less “entangled” or cooperative with them as they try to maintain some semblance of neutrality. You can research for other VPN services but if any were as good as the PG-recommended options, they’d probably already be recommended. In any case, it ultimately shouldn’t matter too much for the reasons I discussed above.