Guess the map

[Heretic_Cata]

Countries officially dictatorships.
Countries officially with 0% homosexuals.
Countries with live public executions.
Countries with lots of free stuff for the people.

 

[Atticus]

Shoot! I guessed it from the same tip Contre did. The current one, I'd go with no elections too.

how the hell the finland have a national anthem BEFORE it was a country?

Before it was an independent state. The song was part of creation of Finnish national identity. If you think it for a while, it's very reasonable: in order to become country there has to be some identity (unless it's completely artificial state), hence the anthem before independence.

We also had own currency and parliament with universal suffrage before becoming independent.

 

[MuppyP]

My first guess was countries with vs. countries without a national parliament, but apparently that's just Burma/Myanmar.

Green is democratic or bragging about being democratic while not? In that case, it's probably slightly outdated because there were 'elections' in Burma/Myanmar recently. The others would fit though.

 

[Steph]

Countries in red are:
- Vatican
- Saudi Arabia
- Myanmar
- Brunei
- Fiji
- And probably Tonga

Don't know what is the common point between them

 

[plarq]

no election
burma thing is news

 

[Tee Kay]

It's "claiming to be democratic" or something along those lines. I remember seeing the map on Wikipedia. So MuppyP got it.

 

[Steph]

Then it is missing a few, like Libya, Oman, Qatar

 

[Tee Kay]

Then it is missing a few, like Libya, Oman, Qatar

The caption on Wikipedia is "Governments self identified as democratic". Libya claims to be a Jamahiriya, which is a democratic system of government. Oman has elections (universal suffrage, too) for an "advisory council". Qatar has municipal elections.

 

[Atticus]

From the same wikipedia-article:

The Economist's Democracy Index as published in January 2008.---(with North Korea being the least democratic at 0.86).

North Korea loses to the countries that don't even claim to be democratic!

 

[Masada]

... why is Fiji on that list? For that matter why is Tonga.

 

[Arwon]

An unusual degree of honesty?

 

[Steph]

Fiji could be in since there was a coup recently (a few years?) and I don't know if there have been election since.

 

[Masada]

... I don't think that would make much of a difference. It still identifies as a Parliamentary Democracy complete with a Prime Minister elected by Parliament...

 

[ilduce349]

universal suffrage. Those are the few countries in the modern world that don't hold elections, or pretend to hold elections.

my bad, failed to see there was a new page

 

[Aquila SPQR]

Being absolute monarchy?

 

[Steph]

Vatican, Fiji are not monarchies.
Tonga is a constitutional monarchy (in theory, I don't know the details)

 

[Traitorfish]

Vatican, Fiji are not monarchies.

Actually, the Vatican is, and self-identifies as such. It's just an elected monarchy, rather than an hereditary one.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

If an elected, non-hereditary position can be called a monarchy, does the word have any meaning?

 

[MuppyP]

It's "claiming to be democratic" or something along those lines. I remember seeing the map on Wikipedia. So MuppyP got it.

yay


brb making a map


*RESERVED FOR MAP*

 

[Dachs]

If an elected, non-hereditary position can be called a monarchy, does the word have any meaning?

Remember Poland! Monarchy just means that one person's in charge (nominally).