Sounds like the USA. That, basically, is the fate of formal democracy under capitalism, especially when regimes in power are menaced by internal and/or external threats (be they state actors or terrorists or both). What differs between rich and poor nations is the degree of force used in repression of domestic dissenters by the regimes in power. The poorer a nation is, the more force it must use, to ward off domestic threats when they materialize. (The USA deviates from this rule, though, in that it has the highest incarceration rate in the world, despite its wealth.) -- Yoshie
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