What if Democracy Rating Swap.

[I love Chips.]

Basically every country in the world get's their history changed by ROB so that their democracy rating get's reversed. Example being that Canada now has a lower democracy rating than north korea in OTL becoming 0.92 on the democracy scale. Democracy Index - Wikipedia. Side tamgent:
Would your nation become better or worse?

 

[I love Chips.]

I'll start things off by saying that canada becomes fucking ingsoc from 1984 in this Clusterfluck.

 

[Esprit]

Not enough information. There were a lot of ways for history to go otherwise to leave America less democratic. All of them have severe implications for much of global geopolitics.
As such, I'm going to go for an interpretation that assumes the drop in democracy rating is a very recent phenomenon as a result of a hypothetical hyper-expansion of the power of the media.
In that case, [Redacted Comment Dependent on Political Perspective].
Depending on various factors, this results in anything from a weird funhouse mirror of 1984-style "you believe what we say" that keeps an actually credible external veneer of democracy to [Second Redacted Comment].

I consider this to be a negative outcome.

 

[I love Chips.]

@Esprit Which nation would become the 'Best' in this swap?

 

[LLuL]

Well, if by best you mean that it ends up being democratic and with a high standard of living, then you need a wealthy but highly unfree country to begin with.
Qatar has one of the world's highest GDP per capita rates, but is classified as an authoritarian regime by the Democracy Index, so that's probably a good example. In general, the Arabian Peninsula (except Yemen) would be the 'First World' in this scenario.

 

[I love Chips.]

1. Official Name: Peoples Republic of China
Captial: Beijing
Population: 1.45 billion
Government: Federal semi-presidential multi-party republic
Head of State: President Xi Jinping
Head of Government: Premier Li Keqiang
Democracy Index: 7.92 (flawed democracy)
2.
Official Name: The Commonwealth of American States
Captial: Washington D.C.
Population: 332.8 million
Government: Confederal directorial republic (de jure); corporatist oligarchic republic (de facto)
Head of State: State President John Edwards
Head of Government: Council President Mitt Romney (rotates yearly)
Democracy Index: 2.74 (authoritarian regime)
3. Official Name: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Capital: London
Population: 65 million.
Head of State: Queen Elizabeth II
Head of Government: Prime Minister Nick Griffin.
Democracy Index: 2.56 (Authoritarian Regime)
4. Official Name: French Republic
Captial: Paris
Population: 66.6 million
Government: Unitary semi-presidential republic (de jure); presidential dictatorship (de facto)
Head of State: President Philippe de Gaulle
Head of Government: Prime Minister François Dubois
Democracy Index: 3.15 (authoritarian regime)
5. Official Name:Russian Federation Capital:Moscow
Population:148.72 million
Goverment:Federal Semi-Presidential Multi-Party Republic.
Head of State:Mikail Mishutin
Head of Goverment: Vladimir Putin
Democracy Index:7.11(Flawed Democracy)