There is a whole literature on fairness in economics, but as far as I know, there is no international ranking that ranks countries in terms of fairness. The UEFA Respect Fair Play ranking however presents one way to rank countries on this criterion.
I aggregated the results of the last 10 years (2000-2010, but 2001 is missing - the original data can be found here) - the overall ranking, based on the weighted average score, for those 50 'countries' that are available every year can be found here
Sweden, Norway, Denmark, England and Finland make the top 5. So the Nordic countries are the most "fair" countries, at least based on behavior of football teams.
The correlation between the 2000 and the 2010 score is about 0.7, which is reasonably high as one would expect as fairness should not vary too much from one year to another.
According to the UEFA "The Respect fair play assessments are made by the official UEFA delegates, based on criteria such as positive play, respect of the opponent, respect of the referee, behaviour of the crowd and the team officials, as well as cautions and dismissals."
It would be nice to make an analysis based on the components of this index - unfortunately, those disaggregated data are not available online and the media center of the UEFA informed me that disaggregated data are confidential since they are part of the official match reports which are not made public - not really transparent, indeed. Maybe an idea for Wikileaks?
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