Which totalitarian state would you rather live in?

[RebeccaChambers]

If you were forced to pick a totalitarian country to live in, where would it be? Note that you would have to spend the rest of your life in the country and couldn't leave.

 

[Yared]

Would I have been born there and known of nothing else?

 

[RebeccaChambers]

Would I have been born there and known of nothing else?

If you went form living here in America (or whatever other country you currently live in) to suddenly forced to live in one of the totalitarian countries.

 

[generalstaff]

Some of the states in the poll are more authoritarian than totalitarian. Also, other "bad" counties are left off of the poll, the most striking being Saudi Arabia, China, and a number of the Central Asian "Republics."

 

[Hygro]

Venezuela, because it's a democracy...

 

[SG-17]

Oh, I thought that this was going to include past totalitarian states.

Also you must have a very loose definition of totalitarian. Pakistan is not, and neither is Venezuela, yet. The Gaza Strip isn't even a nation and Somalia is barely one.

Hell the only totalitarian nations on your poll are North Korea, Cuba, and Burma.

 

[Yared]

If you went form living here in America (or whatever other country you currently live in) to suddenly forced to live in one of the totalitarian countries.

I guess Cuba.

 

[Arwon]

Usa!!!111

 

[madviking]

lolSomalia.

 

[Shadowbound]

Cuba: Beaches, cigars, relatively attractive women. It's like a lesser Brazil.

Also, WTH is with Somalia? That doesn't even have a government, how can it be totalitarian?

 

[Zack]

The Gaza Strip? What?

 

[Hygro]

I don't think you can pick any one of them as the one "lolwut" example. Burma, North Korea, and maybe Cuba. The rest are a combination of non-states, democracies, authoritarian states, and hybrids.

 

[Joecoolyo]

lolSomalia.

This was going to be my response

 

[SG-17]

I don't think you can pick any one of them as the one "lolwut" example. Burma, North Korea, and maybe Cuba. The rest are a combination of non-states, democracies, authoritarian states, and hybrids.

I think that Cuba will fall under the category of "hybrid" by the end of the decade. Raul seems much more open to human rights than his brother was. Hell Fidel even apologized for the actions committed under his rule.

 

[Hygro]

I think that Cuba will fall under the category of "hybrid" by the end of the decade. Raul seems much more open to human rights than his brother was. Hell Fidel even apologized for the actions committed under his rule.

Quite possibly! If I were Cuba I would be studying China and Japan and then setting up an export based, weak currency economy.

 

[SG-17]

Quite possibly! If I were Cuba I would be studying China and Japan and then setting up an export based, weak currency economy.

If travel restrictions get lifted on both sides of that 90 miles of water then they could base their economy on tourism. Cuba is a very beautiful country.

 

[shadowplay]

Venezuela, with Iran 2nd. Compared to the other nations included in the poll there's more wealth and also (relatively) less repression.

 

[Mad Man]

Somalia, any country where I can buy an AK-47 from the same place I buy milk is a country I want to live in.

 

[Sonereal]

Why are Cuba, Vietnam, Somalia (the complete opposite of a totalitarian state if you ask me), Iran, Laos, Pakistan, Venezuela, or Gaza Strip on this list?

Seriously? I can kinda....kinda see Cuba. But Somalia? What in the world? I didn't know that the Somali government, which only controls the capital (scratch that, parts of the capital), could be considered totalitarian.

 

[Virote_Considon]

What aren't Belarus on this list? I'd like to live there because they're white Russians