From your knowledge, which country best embodies DEMOCRACY and FREEDOM?

[UdoKier]

Poll question: From your knowledge, which country best embodies DEMOCRACY and FREEDOM?

From your knowledge, at present, which country best embodies DEMOCRACY and FREEDOM?

[DireStrike]

1. I don't feel qualified to vote.

The only country I really know is the USA, and I know that it doesn't embody either of those.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. netherlands/sweden/norway

[American Tragedy]

7. Sweden still has fairly oppressive drug laws, last I checked

as does most of the 'free world', really. I vote the Netherlands & Belgium.

[MessiahRp]

3. Sweden?

They may have a much more socialist background with how their system works but they still have a royal family running things there. They don't have a democracy at all really.

Rp

[Mist]

5. Sweden has a Parliament

The royal family are pretty much figureheads.

[tom_paine]

4. It should read Imperial Amerika. The old USA only exists in history books

Sad, but true.

And yes, the Free World is now so very small.

It is not inconceivable to surmise that it will eventually be swallowed up by the forces of BushPutinism.

[BlueEyedSon]

6. The "pros" respond:

The Heritage Foundation
2004 Index of Economic Freedom (top 20)
http://www.heritage.org/research/features/index/countries.html

Hong Kong
Singapore
New Zealand
Luxembourg
Ireland
Estonia
United Kingdom
Denmark
Switzerland
United States
Australia
Sweden
Chile
Cyprus
Finland
Canada
Iceland
Germany
Netherlands
Austria

Freedom House
2004 Press Freedom Survey
http://www.freedomhouse.org/research/pressurvey/allscore2004.pdf

Denmark
Iceland
Sweden
Belgium
Finland
Norway
Switzerland
New Zealand
Palau
St. Lucia
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Marshall Islands
The Netherlands
Andorra
Monaco
United States
Australia
Bahamas
Portugal

World Audit.org
Most Democratic:
http://www.worldaudit.org/democracy.htm

Finland
Denmark
New Zealand
Sweden
Switzerland
Norway
Netherlands
Australia
Canada
United Kingdom
Belgium
Germany
United States
Austria
Ireland
Spain
France
Chile
Portugal
Slovenia
Uruguay
Italy

[Wat_Tyler]

8. NZ beats Canada because it has a form of Proportional Representation.

[juliagoolia]

9. list of politics by country

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_politics_by_country_articles

"Finland looks good" on edit.. they got my vote too. Wish I could speak the language and they were a bit more powerful. I'd likely try to move there. My concern is they are not that big really, and adjacent to Russia which is powerful and has formerly ruled them.