Not to mention there are no protections against slavery/indetured servitude, the military is in charge of athletic performances, due process does not exist, uniform punishments for children and adults, “State Sec” kids (SMILE) being ultra-secretive, no separation of government branches, and, uhh… Oh, yeah:
Add Q/Discretionary question: Is the government or occupying power deliberately changing the ethnic composition of a country or territory so as to destroy a culture or tip the political balance in favor of another group? Points deduction: -1 (changeling situation)
And that takes points off the political rights score and by proxy, the global freedom score.
How do other fictional, intended as benevolent monarchies rank? And what about the other nations in the setting? I don’t think there’s any freer/more functional governments than Equestria.
And how did the historic real life monarchies rank? That might be a more useful comparison given the values dissidence of the whole setting, not just Equestria, being in the Renaissance at latest politically.
They give a state that banned all opposition parties, permanently suspended elections, banned the church of its largest minority, imprisons people indefinitely without charge or trial, imprisons people for speaking the wrong language, and uses the army to kill entire regions of its own citizens indiscriminately under the accusation of disloyalty, a 49/100, and called it “partially free”.
Meanwhile, the country next door that has many political parties across the spectrum, holds regular elections, allows linguistic pluralism, and allows broad religious freedom gets a 9/100.
What countries are you talking about again?
I checked their list, China and Libya are the only countries with 9/100 right now.
Ukraine is the only country with a 49/100, and it’s nowhere near China or Libya.
Freedom House is a joke. They give a state that banned all opposition parties, permanently suspended elections, banned the church of its largest minority, imprisons people indefinitely without charge or trial, imprisons people for speaking the wrong language, and uses the army to kill entire regions of its own citizens indiscriminately under the accusation of disloyalty, a 49/100, and called it “partially free”.
Meanwhile, the country next door that has many political parties across the spectrum, holds regular elections, allows linguistic pluralism, and allows broad religious freedom gets a 13/100 and a “consolidated authoritarian regime.”
Why yes it is by and paid for by the US government and mysteriously always seems to want the same as and agree with the US government.
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Wait, are we talking about Russia here?
Oops, forgot Cote d’Ivoire also has a 49/100. But even then, it and Libya are on opposite sides of the Saahara.
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https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world