I honestly thought it was a joke because you weren't going to answer a possibly controversial question or something 😂 I'd be curious to know if it changes your audience retention at all, since you didn't sign off and give people an excuse to leave a tad early.
Fun fact. The official Greek name for Greece is Ellinikí Dimokratía which could be translated as the Greek Republic or, more literally, the Hellenic Democracy.
We always use the word "democracy", rather than republic, so for us it's "the democracy of Turkey", "the democracy of Armenia", the "Hellenic Democracy", the "people's democracy of China", and so on.
@@orestisbe6978 yeah, I know, I just showed that as a translation. Which by the way made me question how you call countries with "Democratic Republic" in their names (especially to tell DR Congo and Rep. of Congo apart). In Ethiopia's case it's just one word, but in other cases it's either Λαϊκή Δημοκρατία). It's like People's Republic of China then? And then when it's "People's Democratic Republic", it's just two words, Λαϊκή Δημοκρατία or Λαοκρατική Δημοκρατία. Does it all sound natural?
@@IsaacIsaacIsaacson interesting, 'cos in Russian the official name is still the Greek Republic, and the word Ellada would almost always mean the Ancient Greece.
"Watch him on double speed to force your brain to quadruple in size just to understand what he's saying. My intelligence increased from that suiting of my species to the point where I'm currently engaging in 7 separate games of chess against separate Russian players, but where my queen is replaced by a pawn at the start and I have 2 seconds to make a move while the enemy has an infinity, at the same time as typing this." - My dog, who was able to bite out a serial killers throat and now uses it in addition to a flute to speak because "text to speech devices are so primitive".
You had your dismal period of colonialism in Central Africa, which started by your most illustrious former King; just look at what that done for most of its native citizens... You've got more pressing issues closer to home, Belgium. THINK ABOUT IT.
@@robertwheelock7444 i'm from Belgium and I can confirm we really got some problems at home, like having an elections in May 2019 and still not having a proper federal government
Maybe figureheads with no real power are, regardless, sources of national unity and pride, and has the effect of stabilizing a country? I dunno, just my very amateur opinion.
@@cmyk8964 Australia, Canada, UK and other commonwealth countries are democratic countries (parliament and everything) with the queen as our head. Here in Australia she doesn't do anything that really affects our day-to-day life.
@@kaijuslayer3334 Heads of State and Heads of Government are different things, and the latter is the one that holds real power, but one leader can be both if it's the law
@@minescape1309 Yes but, the main difference is Communists unlike anarchists, understand that you can’t just immediately burn everything down and have a communalist society and just expect everything to run smoothly, just doesn’t work like that It has to be built
Yeah, it's rough because the capitalist world is prone to intervention in socialist revolutions, and the socialist force is forced to centralize to resist outside imperialist forces. For example, during the Russian revolution, the capitalist West literally invaded Russia to prop up the far-right forces such as the Black Hundreds (which was virulently antisemitic).
Really not that hard when the population is so low and most of the people are either chilling in saunas/hot springs or huddling in their room with heater turned on.
To add to Timor Leste being East East, before Timore Leste became an independent country it was an Indonesian province, and the official name for the province is Timor Timur. "Timur" is modern Indonesian for East, while Timor is (presumably, I admit I'm not an expert on this) the old indigenous language for East. Timor Timur, Eastern East, implies that there is a West East, and there is. Timor Barat was, and still is, an Indonesian province with "barat" meaning west. So we have Eastern East and Western East.
Fun fact the last GDR election in 1990 was indeed democratic. But on 3 October 1990 joined the Federal Republic of Germany, as a result of the election.
I had this theory that the longer a countrys name was, the worse place to live it would be. Then someone pointed out that the longest country name is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Make of that what you will.
19:45 the French use the two-round system which isn’t ranked. It’s basically first past the post but with two rounds of voting (if no one gets above 50% then there is a run off round with the top 2 candidates).
03:19 A bit like the village in Leicestershire, England called Breedon-on-the-Hill; Bree is 'hill' in the old Britannic language and don is 'hill' in Old English, so you get a place called 'Hillhill-on-the-Hill'.
Interesting, just like the village Nesoddtangen, Norway. It's in a peninsula. Tangen means "spit", odd means "point" and nes means "headland". So it can be translated roughly as "peninsula-peninsula-peninsula".
Ireland has the most civil and social welfare plans per capita. We provide free housing called the Dole (like the romans yes), we give free education, free scholarships, free tourism grants where you can go to Europe for free on the interrail, and we also provide universal free healthcare. Along with that we also are one of the only countries in the world who openly allow refugees to come to Ireland with ease from countries in the Balkans, and Middle East (and some other nations that we do UN Peacekeeping Operations in)
Re: Ethiopia has never been colonised: It wasn't colonised in the rush for africa when colonialism was the hot new thing all the cool nations did. After WW1, poor old fascist Italy decided they were doing really badly on the colonialism front historically, and so they grabbed it (while allegedly getting murdered with spears). They were then promptly kicked out by the British during the second big ruffle scuffle.
You should host a satirical show. I love your Humor. Greetings from Germany, my parents are actually born in the german democratic republic, which was a pretty undemocratic dectatorship. But yes, 1 party is better then zero parties.
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, an appellation of country, which was personally given by President Kim Il Sung, clearly reflects the independent, genuine democratic and popular character of the Republic. The “democracy” in the state appellation implies a new type of democracy reflecting the actual reality of Korea which is in the stage of the anti-imperialist, anti-feudal democratic revolution. President Kim Il Sung defined the character of the Korean revolution as the anti-imperialist, anti-feudal democratic revolution, saying that a power to be built in the liberated fatherland should naturally be a system for the people, a democratic power championing the interests of the broad sections of popular masses. The word “democracy” has the profound meaning of the progressive democracy of our own style, fundamentally different from the “democracy” of a certain style being prevailed in the world. The progressive democracy of our own style, as President Kim Il Sung said, is a genuine one for the people which fundamentally differs from the bourgeois “democracy”, nothing but a screen to cover the exploitation and oppression of the people by a small number of privilegentsia who seized all power of the state. It was the genuine democracy, distinguished from democracy in the previous socialist countries. It fully represents the aspiration of the entire Korean people, demanding that the popular masses become the master of country and that all the people, except the reactionary elements, be ensured freedom and happiness.
Shut the fuck up, no one should be allowed tobthet fucking stupid to defend north korea get out of your eccho chambersor whatever is making you think that.
Still a Monarchy, just giving more power to Parliament than the Royalty. All Monarchies share their power with a form of Government. With the case of Absolutr Monarchies, they share very little,. With the case of Consituttional, they share most or all of the power.
(6:05) You could short their names to East Congo and West Congo, just like you have North Korea and South Korea. I actually find it odd that these aren't their short names.
The East Congo/West Congo method (like the Big Congo/Little Congo one suggested by newspapers a while back) just will NOT work (for a host of legitimate reasons)!! It's why these nations are still known by their capital cities, and most likely to remain this way.
22:02 I saw Afghanistan on the list. That's when I realized this video was from March. The current function of Iraq is still quite accurate. 0%. It's not a sovereign nation. It just isn't. We really screwed up there.
19:55 I do believe you are mistaken.. although not mentioned early enough in the wiki article to be in the hover text, Iceland's official long form is The Republic of Iceland, so the highest ranking republic is in second place.
Something interesting about the Belgian influence in the Congolese Civil War: The Force Publique, the people who carried out most atrocities, had the majority black soldiers rebel against their white officers. They then became a part of the civil war, attacking white farms and settlements, and generally being pretty terrible just like before.
@@belkYT You after saying your opinion in gulf country: I was fucking wrong. (this is just a joke. I am saying this because some people will make a drama out of this)
Congo-Zaire, the most it's like... For a host of historic and legitimate reasons, it's about as close as this'll get to a recognizable short form name. So True, Indeed.
8:22 saying democracy makes a country less communist imo is just wrong. While yes in practice communist countries are almost always authoritarian, in theory an economic theory that wants everyone to be equal should only be able to go along with a form of government that wants everyone to be equal, so communist countries should all be democratic if they're really living up to theoretical communism (which basically none ever did)
Saying Ethiopia was colonized is like saying France was colonized, except there's a stronger case for France. Ethiopia was occupied during a portion of WW2, it was an allied power and Italy occupied some of it, being an axis power, before other allied countries liberated it later in the war. France, on the other hand, along with most other European countries, was entirely occupied and governed by another country during much off WW2. However you wouldn't say France, Poland, or Hungary were colonized. So you also wouldn't say that Ethiopia was colonized.
Remember when this guy was just a funny minecraft cat youtuber? ibxtoycat/2cat a few years ago: Welcome back to video games! ibxtoycat/2cat now: *R e v o l u t i o n*
A fully communist society can run perfectly fine alongside a fully functioning democratic state. There's nothing unusual about that, it's actually expected that the ideal communism should be a democracy. The opposite ideology of communism is capitalism, not democracy. The opposite ideology of democracy is authoritarianism. Communism and democracy is orthogonal. Communism is not necessarily authoritarian. In fact, the original idea of communist society, as the ideology was originally envisioned by Marx (rather than the ones that real world states ended up implementing), is actually quite anti-authoritarian and anti-state, bordering on anarchy (lack of government). The thinking is that when communism is achieved, the state should be mostly unnecessary. The idea of having a ruling class is the antithesis to communism, whose ultimate goal is a classless society.
This is kinda wrong. Communism is by definition a moneyless, stateless and classless society, meaning that there would be no state whatsoever, the opposite of communism is not capitalism, since communism Is a form of society with an economic system (socialism) that is the opposite of capitalism. Communism is not something that runs alongside democracy, it is by definition more of an extension of the concept of democracy through workplace democracy, classlessness, ...
The ISO codes for the Democratic Republic of the Congo & for the Republic of the Congo are "CD" & "CG" respectively, which I think was a big mistake on the part of the ISO because CD is on the left bank of the river (Rive-Gauche), CG is on the right bank of the river (Rive-Droite) & the lingua franca of those countries is French.
I don't know if you know this or realize this but you forgot a country The Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, it a small west Africa archipelago so it is understandable that you might miss it but just thought someone should point it out
I feel like it should have been mentioned the criticism of this process. There are a lot of scores on these, that seem off to certain experts and the organization behind it won't release specific methods or data used. I still think it is a pretty decent tool, but not without its flaws
I’m two minds about it. Not releasing the method make it hard to inspect the process and results. But on other hand, it makes it hard to game the system. Lets say that they automatically give lower score when someone has 100% votes for one party, since it’s obviously scam. Such country could just make it 99,99% and get higher score, and then do similarly in other areas to jump up in ranking. All these rankings are only approximations. We can’t actually measure democracy or freedom. Only symptoms. And those can be embellished.
At the time of this video, the EPRDF was kind of the entire democracy of Ethiopia, as it was a coalition of smaller parties and elections were more about who's in charge of the EPRDF, and thus Ethiopia, than simply who's in charge of Ethiopia
Every continent has a country that actually doesn't exist. Europe has Finland, Australia has New Zealand and Asia has South Korea. As you can see, there's nothing in South Korea
In stateless communist states, the classless ruling communist class owns all of the moneyless money. Also, every curve has to be straight there and they don't obey the laws of physics. Still think communism is cool?
@@lead_sommelier in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Democracy there is absolutely exceptional, ALL people vote and get represented via the great leader, hence Republic. It’s an example of Democracy, it’s in the name!
@@lead_sommelier So what you’re saying is that Communism is when no communism. Money is when no money. Freedom is when Tyranny. Right is wrong. Left is right. North is south. Shut the fuck up dumbass, don’t lecture me about the Comintern, I was there when the history was written. If you think the Comintern didn’t receive tremendous backlash from anti-capitalists you’re clearly not educated.
Ok so, then, logicaly speaking If I were to fund a country, and I called it "the UNdemocratic republic of..." Would that, in turn, make it be more democratic?
"Nepal is democratic, they can vote, but they are communist" .... .... communists can have voting systems, yes. Thats a complete separate trait. Capitalists can have fake-voting or non-voting systems too. A nice case of semi fake-voting is Singapore. A nice case of non-voting is Brunei.
idk about Norway and Sweden, but here in the Netherlands even though we have a monarch, we also have an entire government aside from that, who do the actual law making and stuff the royals are more like glorified celebrities, they do have power, but aren't exclusive rulers
@@danielbartholomew4037 No state, No unjust hiearchy, direct democracy and decentralised communes wich work together You have full control of your life
@@danielbartholomew4037 control with your community (local area) to do stuff like Make laws Build whatever Concult with other communes And directly vote on stuff Though it's always different from wich anarchist you talk to and what ideology the adhere to though Or what it is under praxis wich has most of the time succesful
All of these indices (democracy index, peace index, etc.) are quite *flawed* Here we see Spain making the cut as a "full democracy," and the USA just missing the cut, i.e., a "flawed democracy." Yeah, riiiiight.
@@ibx2cat - We don't have the crime of "hate speech" (e.g., Canada does); we do have the right to bear arms (judgment call against the USA; not a civil liberty?). How democratic do many Catalonians consider Spain? Or Albertans - Canada? Or Scots - the UK? :-P
@@SilvanaDil Wow. I think you're getting confused between democracy and laws. Having the right to bear arms doesn't make you more democratic, a lot of countries would vote against it anyway - just like many vote for hate speech laws. The country votes for who represents them - not an american with a different point of view. The point is, if the countries don't like the laws they vote against the government and choose someone who better represents them, thus changing the law. You should also know that Scotland voted to stay in the UK - that is undemocratic? P.S. In the UK (where i'm from) and China (where I live - yes i know it's not a democracy) the majority of the people don't want guns!
@@SilvanaDil Yes, a lot of them do, and they probably will at some point. It's just impractical to keep voting all the time. It's most likely they will not vote again after the UK has properly left the EU, then the Scottish people will have a clearer understanding on what they are voting for. They also need to wait for this because there needs to be reason for voting again (in this case leaving the EU)
YES YES, FINALLY, I was googleing this two months ago and had to do a manual list, because I wanted to include all the 70s soviet puppets that had democratic
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea scores a 25% in country name accuracy. Now if it was the Authoritarian Kim Jung Un's Dictatorship of Korea, then it would get an A+!
There is actually a lot more countries that have the word "Republic" in their official name, most European Countries have it in their official title... For example, I come from Austria, whose official name is "Republik Österreich" (REPUBLIC of Austria). A more prominent example would probably be the "Bundesrepublik Deutschland" (=Federal REPUBLIC of Germany).
Not sure where the last 20 seconds of the video went, for now we'll never know if second channel don't care or second channel do care though!
ibxtoycat need the las 20 seconds!!!!
Toycat, it's time to put this one as your first YTB channel, nobody here know your minecraft one
Censored by Kim Jong-un?! :o
yeah when it cut off I was like "wut?!??!? MUST KNOW MORE" lolz
I honestly thought it was a joke because you weren't going to answer a possibly controversial question or something 😂 I'd be curious to know if it changes your audience retention at all, since you didn't sign off and give people an excuse to leave a tad early.
Having "democratic" in your name is the "I'm actually a nice guy" of countries.
So, what if I name my country Dictatorship of Authoritarian States?
@ idk, maybe anarchist commune -state- community?
@ the edgelord chunni of countries, probably.
@ Then that's a place I definitely don't want to live
“I’m actually an r/niceguys!”
The "Democratic republic of" title is the national equivalent to clickbait
Nugcon This comment made my -day- night
so true
lol
Yeah
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That’s the flag of Liberia...
he ended it strangly to make you comment about it and thus cheat the algorithem
200 IQ
but i thought second channel, don't care?
Big brained moves
@@CostDeath he still makes money from it
r/woosh
"Is your country democratic?"
"The law requires that I say yes."
Well yes but actually no
Fun fact. The official Greek name for Greece is Ellinikí Dimokratía which could be translated as the Greek Republic or, more literally, the Hellenic Democracy.
"Republic" is from Latin; the Greeks prefer their own word. Although they may use the Latinate σίγουρο instead of the native ασφαλές.
The official English name is also The Hellenic Republic.
We always use the word "democracy", rather than republic, so for us it's "the democracy of Turkey", "the democracy of Armenia", the "Hellenic Democracy", the "people's democracy of China", and so on.
@@orestisbe6978 yeah, I know, I just showed that as a translation. Which by the way made me question how you call countries with "Democratic Republic" in their names (especially to tell DR Congo and Rep. of Congo apart). In Ethiopia's case it's just one word, but in other cases it's either Λαϊκή Δημοκρατία). It's like People's Republic of China then? And then when it's "People's Democratic Republic", it's just two words, Λαϊκή Δημοκρατία or Λαοκρατική Δημοκρατία. Does it all sound natural?
@@IsaacIsaacIsaacson interesting, 'cos in Russian the official name is still the Greek Republic, and the word Ellada would almost always mean the Ancient Greece.
The whole Timor-Leste "east-east" thing is similar to the River Avon, near me, which as Avon means River, is literally called "river river"
Soviet Union meant Union union, chai tea is tea tea, it happens a lot apparently
I too love near the river Avon ( your talking about the one in southern england right?)
Similar to how some people here in the U.S. say "Rio Grande River" when Rio means river.
The Great Amida river big river lmao
Meet Lake Chad
Chad means Lake
So "Lake Lake"
Why is watching a fast speaking Minecraft youtuber talking about geopolitics interesting?
Jacob Gutierrez because we love geography
cause he is a fast speaking minecraft youtuber talking about geowhatever
"Watch him on double speed to force your brain to quadruple in size just to understand what he's saying. My intelligence increased from that suiting of my species to the point where I'm currently engaging in 7 separate games of chess against separate Russian players, but where my queen is replaced by a pawn at the start and I have 2 seconds to make a move while the enemy has an infinity, at the same time as typing this."
- My dog, who was able to bite out a serial killers throat and now uses it in addition to a flute to speak because "text to speech devices are so primitive".
Because geopolitics
“Because toycat is a spook” - Max Stirner
This is why the most chill totalitarian country (Cuba) was smart and just kept their name as "Republic of Cuba"
Spain just called itself the Spanish State when under Franco, can’t argue with that
@Hoàng Nguyên New name for the 2020s Vietnam: "Socialist Republic of Vietnam with Capitalist Characteristics"
Alexander S. Sorry All I can think about right now to Cuba’s name to Republic of Dicks. No amount of bleach will cure this. I’m very sorry
''totalitarian''
"chill"
No outro?
Does he care?
Does he not?
I must know!
"second channel, don t care"
Apparently the last 20 seconds just disappeared
I feel like it's very meta because it shows a lack of care by cutting off.
@@alexwood3459 LMAO TRUE
Belgium be like "bongo bongo bongo i dont want to leave the congo"
You had your dismal period of colonialism in Central Africa, which started by your most illustrious former King; just look at what that done for most of its native citizens... You've got more pressing issues closer to home, Belgium. THINK ABOUT IT.
@@robertwheelock7444 i'm from Belgium and I can confirm we really got some problems at home, like having an elections in May 2019 and still not having a proper federal government
Relax he is just a fallout player
HOW CAN I TYPE IF NO HANDS
“Bingo bango bongo I’m so happy in the jungle I refuse to go”
I find it fascinating that the heads of state for 6 out of the 10 most democratic countries are monarchs.
Maybe figureheads with no real power are, regardless, sources of national unity and pride, and has the effect of stabilizing a country? I dunno, just my very amateur opinion.
@@cmyk8964 Australia, Canada, UK and other commonwealth countries are democratic countries (parliament and everything) with the queen as our head. Here in Australia she doesn't do anything that really affects our day-to-day life.
You says heads of state like they really control anything
@@kaijuslayer3334 Heads of State and Heads of Government are different things, and the latter is the one that holds real power, but one leader can be both if it's the law
“The UK has been a continuous democracy for almost a thousand years” that’s some rocky numbers my dude
Rocky? That’s the whole fucking moutain lmao
*for thousands of years*
love the video ending "is only fu-"
The most *Democratic* country was tired from him talking too much
North Korea had enough of him
@@Liggliluff Lol yeah
As Chancellor Palpatine once said, "I love democracy."
you mean The Senate?
@@babotond he is the senate
Marx: You can't be Communist without being Democratic.
Literally every 'Communist' Nation except Nepal: No.
@TheRedGuardsman so communism is just a form of anarchism? good to know I guess
@@minescape1309 Yes but, the main difference is Communists unlike anarchists, understand that you can’t just immediately burn everything down and have a communalist society and just expect everything to run smoothly, just doesn’t work like that
It has to be built
@@minescape1309 They're borderline Anarchist and liberty lol.
@@Rg-nk3rc In theory, practicaly they pretty quick become authoritarian. Absolute power is like a drug.
Yeah, it's rough because the capitalist world is prone to intervention in socialist revolutions, and the socialist force is forced to centralize to resist outside imperialist forces. For example, during the Russian revolution, the capitalist West literally invaded Russia to prop up the far-right forces such as the Black Hundreds (which was virulently antisemitic).
"British Ceylon as she insists on calling it"
GAWD SAVE THE QUEEN!
WARCRIMMINAL QUEEN
jode how so? The prime minister and politicians decide to go to war.
she's a war criminal because she stole the elixir of immortality off of civilians in 1943
Iceland actually has the highest democratic score with "Republic of" in its name
Niceland
Really not that hard when the population is so low and most of the people are either chilling in saunas/hot springs or huddling in their room with heater turned on.
@@spinyslasher6586 Love that
The name of countries are always so ironic. Like “United” States of America, “People’s Republic of” China.
@Bonkers I didn’t put quotation marks around states
Don’t forget “Green”land, which is absolutely covered with ice, and “Ice”land, which only has ice on around 10% of it’s land.
@@nqrtzy8765 ah but you see. Greenland is not an independent country
United "Kingdom"
Technically, they are a kingdom, but the word kingdom inspires ideas of grandeur, not a couple islands in the middle of nowhere.
@@shaeby8123 yeah the ""United" "Kingdom""
as an Algerian hearing somebody saying "i like this anthem"
is a pure joy
I mean technically North Korea is a democracy, but there's only 1 party, and you HAVE to vote for them.
I mean... You're not wrong.
Same with the USSR you could vote, you just HAVE to vote for the Communist Party or... Gulag
you CAN vote for other parties but.... it just doesnt ever work
@@mcplumpkin6191 because Gulag
@@Dianasaurthemelonlord7777 kim always wins babbbyyyy
@@mcplumpkin6191 or Gulag
"if you have to tell someone something, you're probably not that thing"
And that is why women don't like nice guys.
Or why men don't like nice girls.
Or why any sexual orientation dislike any of them.
Us guys dont like em either!!!!
To add to Timor Leste being East East, before Timore Leste became an independent country it was an Indonesian province, and the official name for the province is Timor Timur. "Timur" is modern Indonesian for East, while Timor is (presumably, I admit I'm not an expert on this) the old indigenous language for East. Timor Timur, Eastern East, implies that there is a West East, and there is. Timor Barat was, and still is, an Indonesian province with "barat" meaning west. So we have Eastern East and Western East.
Episode 536 of Toycat ranting on random things that for some reason we find interesting
United States: Wait..why are we a "Flawed Democracy?"
Corruption, Hacking, etc.: *I don't know bro.*
The German Democratic Republic would be another example ;).
well...
@KvAT ah a man of culture
@@rhoninwindrunner7575 no it wasn't you idiot
Fun fact the last GDR election in 1990 was indeed democratic. But on 3 October 1990 joined the Federal Republic of Germany, as a result of the election.
@@rhoninwindrunner7575 yeah mate, people in the soviet union really had a lot of control over there government lmao
So these are "democratic" versions of the Holy Roman Empire
Edit: thanks for the likes
U mean modern versions?
Xd
Ok I know that's a meme but it was a christian empire guarunteed by the pope in rome so "holy roman empire" works just fine
Ferro-Plastic Transport Lol
That moment when you’re not Roman... and you’re not holy... at least you’re *kind of* an empire...
I had this theory that the longer a countrys name was, the worse place to live it would be. Then someone pointed out that the longest country name is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Make of that what you will.
As long as it has Kingdom in its name, it's probably a democracy
So your theory is correct
Doctor Congo is the funniest thing to me right now chief
I couldn't stop laughing when I first heard it either
19:45 the French use the two-round system which isn’t ranked. It’s basically first past the post but with two rounds of voting (if no one gets above 50% then there is a run off round with the top 2 candidates).
Haha this was a very interesting video, but it did end strangely
he ended it strangly to make you camment and thus cheat the algorithem
03:19 A bit like the village in Leicestershire, England called Breedon-on-the-Hill; Bree is 'hill' in the old Britannic language and don is 'hill' in Old English, so you get a place called 'Hillhill-on-the-Hill'.
Interesting, just like the village Nesoddtangen, Norway. It's in a peninsula. Tangen means "spit", odd means "point" and nes means "headland". So it can be translated roughly as "peninsula-peninsula-peninsula".
Republic of the Congo:
Democratic Republic of the Congo:
Daniel:
The cooler Daniel:
Mojant actually has the lowest democracy score because they won’t make a cave update
I simultaneously want to torture and award you
Mojang*
Or bring back 1.8 pvp
Tru doe
@@My_Old_YT_Account laughs in bedrock
Your pronunciation of "Metropolis" reminds me of Bill Wurtz trying to pronounce "Majapahit".
Mahajapit
@@british35 Mapajahit
Mahapajit
Ireland has the most civil and social welfare plans per capita.
We provide free housing called the Dole (like the romans yes), we give free education, free scholarships, free tourism grants where you can go to Europe for free on the interrail, and we also provide universal free healthcare.
Along with that we also are one of the only countries in the world who openly allow refugees to come to Ireland with ease from countries in the Balkans, and Middle East (and some other nations that we do UN Peacekeeping Operations in)
Is there a part 2? ;; this cut off mid sentence
North Korea got him mid video
"Second channel i don't care"
-Andrew
Imagine if Italy had “union” in it’s official name and it went to war with Switzerland which has Confederation in its name
"One party, better than zero parties"
anarchists: actuallyyyy....
If you have 3 choices, you have three.
If you have 2 choices, you have two.
If you have one choice, you have no choice.
why have party when you can be independent
Metaxis would disagree.
Re: Ethiopia has never been colonised:
It wasn't colonised in the rush for africa when colonialism was the hot new thing all the cool nations did.
After WW1, poor old fascist Italy decided they were doing really badly on the colonialism front historically, and so they grabbed it (while allegedly getting murdered with spears). They were then promptly kicked out by the British during the second big ruffle scuffle.
ibx2cat: let's rank countries by democracy
me: yes!
You should host a satirical show. I love your Humor. Greetings from Germany, my parents are actually born in the german democratic republic, which was a pretty undemocratic dectatorship. But yes, 1 party is better then zero parties.
The irony is that the most democratic country is a “kingdom” while the least democratic one is a “democratic people’s republic”
Keep it up! Love from North korea🇰🇵
Then how were you able to watch this video, let alone obtain a VPN?
@@JaredtheRabbit I have my ways:)
There is a hotel in Pyongyang where foreigners have access to the internet.
@@larsdahl5528 What about non-foreigners staying at the hotel?
@@aryan_kumar They can't. North Koreans can't be in that hotel.
1:58 the republic of Ireland am I a joke to you
The federal republic of Germany...
Didn't know that about you, Toycat. I suppose we are all different in different ways.
I'm not
20:52 - when u not allowed to talk about the 28 democratic country, isn't something wrong?
6:20 What do you mean? That I was a bad leader? How dare you!
"The UK has been a democracy for a continuous thousand years now"
WTF how ?
This ended on a huge cliffhanger, cant wait for part 2 where we find out what he was going to say!
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, an appellation of country, which was personally given by President Kim Il Sung, clearly reflects the independent, genuine democratic and popular character of the Republic.
The “democracy” in the state appellation implies a new type of democracy reflecting the actual reality of Korea which is in the stage of the anti-imperialist, anti-feudal democratic revolution.
President Kim Il Sung defined the character of the Korean revolution as the anti-imperialist, anti-feudal democratic revolution, saying that a power to be built in the liberated fatherland should naturally be a system for the people, a democratic power championing the interests of the broad sections of popular masses.
The word “democracy” has the profound meaning of the progressive democracy of our own style, fundamentally different from the “democracy” of a certain style being prevailed in the world.
The progressive democracy of our own style, as President Kim Il Sung said, is a genuine one for the people which fundamentally differs from the bourgeois “democracy”, nothing but a screen to cover the exploitation and oppression of the people by a small number of privilegentsia who seized all power of the state.
It was the genuine democracy, distinguished from democracy in the previous socialist countries. It fully represents the aspiration of the entire Korean people, demanding that the popular masses become the master of country and that all the people, except the reactionary elements, be ensured freedom and happiness.
Why do South Koreans reject it?
Shut the fuck up, no one should be allowed tobthet fucking stupid to defend north korea get out of your eccho chambersor whatever is making you think that.
18:27 Being a monarchy isn't really undemocratic if the king was elected by the people... Or at least his grandfather was.
Many Monarchy's are rated high on the Democratic Index, such as the Kingdom of Norway
Free it’s a constitutional monarchy, the king isn’t really a ruler
Still a Monarchy, just giving more power to Parliament than the Royalty. All Monarchies share their power with a form of Government. With the case of Absolutr Monarchies, they share very little,. With the case of Consituttional, they share most or all of the power.
I think you forgot to mention São Tomé and Príncipe, but other than that, nice job! :)
(6:05) You could short their names to East Congo and West Congo, just like you have North Korea and South Korea. I actually find it odd that these aren't their short names.
The East Congo/West Congo method (like the Big Congo/Little Congo one suggested by newspapers a while back) just will NOT work (for a host of legitimate reasons)!! It's why these nations are still known by their capital cities, and most likely to remain this way.
Single party democracy is like the oldest trick in the book and it still works
22:02 I saw Afghanistan on the list. That's when I realized this video was from March.
The current function of Iraq is still quite accurate. 0%.
It's not a sovereign nation. It just isn't. We really screwed up there.
The economist ranking really isn't a good source for this since it measures alignement to western neoliberalism at least as much as democracy.
Jannis western democracy is the only true democracy
@@obiechan8994 no it isn't
@@Mr8lacklp Well practically no other country is democratic outside if its alligned tl the west
@@jesusramirezromo2037 imagine if 'the West' had played a role in that.
19:55 I do believe you are mistaken.. although not mentioned early enough in the wiki article to be in the hover text, Iceland's official long form is The Republic of Iceland, so the highest ranking republic is in second place.
"People living in full democracies are fou..."
-Toycat t end of the video.
Something interesting about the Belgian influence in the Congolese Civil War:
The Force Publique, the people who carried out most atrocities, had the majority black soldiers rebel against their white officers. They then became a part of the civil war, attacking white farms and settlements, and generally being pretty terrible just like before.
Toycat: "everyone's favorite thing, democracy"
People who willingly emigrate to the Persian Gulf countries: "fuck democracy, I want money"
accurate
Yeah I hate democracy
@@belkYT You after saying your opinion in gulf country: I was fucking wrong.
(this is just a joke. I am saying this because some people will make a drama out of this)
'democratic republic of congo'
sure buddy, sure
Congo-Zaire, the most it's like... For a host of historic and legitimate reasons, it's about as close as this'll get to a recognizable short form name. So True, Indeed.
8:22 saying democracy makes a country less communist imo is just wrong. While yes in practice communist countries are almost always authoritarian, in theory an economic theory that wants everyone to be equal should only be able to go along with a form of government that wants everyone to be equal, so communist countries should all be democratic if they're really living up to theoretical communism (which basically none ever did)
Saying Ethiopia was colonized is like saying France was colonized, except there's a stronger case for France. Ethiopia was occupied during a portion of WW2, it was an allied power and Italy occupied some of it, being an axis power, before other allied countries liberated it later in the war. France, on the other hand, along with most other European countries, was entirely occupied and governed by another country during much off WW2. However you wouldn't say France, Poland, or Hungary were colonized. So you also wouldn't say that Ethiopia was colonized.
“Gets you feeling Algerian, heck yeah” hahahaha
Remember when this guy was just a funny minecraft cat youtuber?
ibxtoycat/2cat a few years ago: Welcome back to video games!
ibxtoycat/2cat now: *R e v o l u t i o n*
A fully communist society can run perfectly fine alongside a fully functioning democratic state. There's nothing unusual about that, it's actually expected that the ideal communism should be a democracy.
The opposite ideology of communism is capitalism, not democracy. The opposite ideology of democracy is authoritarianism. Communism and democracy is orthogonal.
Communism is not necessarily authoritarian. In fact, the original idea of communist society, as the ideology was originally envisioned by Marx (rather than the ones that real world states ended up implementing), is actually quite anti-authoritarian and anti-state, bordering on anarchy (lack of government).
The thinking is that when communism is achieved, the state should be mostly unnecessary. The idea of having a ruling class is the antithesis to communism, whose ultimate goal is a classless society.
This is kinda wrong. Communism is by definition a moneyless, stateless and classless society, meaning that there would be no state whatsoever, the opposite of communism is not capitalism, since communism Is a form of society with an economic system (socialism) that is the opposite of capitalism. Communism is not something that runs alongside democracy, it is by definition more of an extension of the concept of democracy through workplace democracy, classlessness, ...
The ISO codes for the Democratic Republic of the Congo & for the Republic of the Congo are "CD" & "CG" respectively, which I think was a big mistake on the part of the ISO because CD is on the left bank of the river (Rive-Gauche), CG is on the right bank of the river (Rive-Droite) & the lingua franca of those countries is French.
When your country is nr one on the index so you just smirk and nod for the rest of the video
I don't know if you know this or realize this but you forgot a country The Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, it a small west Africa archipelago so it is understandable that you might miss it but just thought someone should point it out
toycat is a person of colour 🇱🇰🇱🇰🇱🇰
I feel like it should have been mentioned the criticism of this process. There are a lot of scores on these, that seem off to certain experts and the organization behind it won't release specific methods or data used. I still think it is a pretty decent tool, but not without its flaws
I’m two minds about it. Not releasing the method make it hard to inspect the process and results. But on other hand, it makes it hard to game the system. Lets say that they automatically give lower score when someone has 100% votes for one party, since it’s obviously scam. Such country could just make it 99,99% and get higher score, and then do similarly in other areas to jump up in ranking.
All these rankings are only approximations. We can’t actually measure democracy or freedom. Only symptoms. And those can be embellished.
Yeah I was wondering how Cuba was that low
tfw when america, the country know for being "the land of the free", isnt even top 10 in this list.
To be fair to America there is more to freedom than just democracy but they should probably sort their voting system out.
The list is based upon the pure democracy of a country. America is not a democracy by design. It’s an unusual mix of democracy and republicanism.
Not just out of the top ten, but is counted as a Flawed Democracy
America is a democratic republic. Not a democracy.
The USA is a Federal Republic, similar to Germany
It is a Democratic Nation as it has Elections ahd Referendums
At the time of this video, the EPRDF was kind of the entire democracy of Ethiopia, as it was a coalition of smaller parties and elections were more about who's in charge of the EPRDF, and thus Ethiopia, than simply who's in charge of Ethiopia
Doctor Congo! Sounds like a 40s film serial.
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15:48 The infrastructure is so differend in Noth Korea, that you can see it on Googel Maps =D
Google "Korea nighttime". Its just...
Every continent has a country that actually doesn't exist. Europe has Finland, Australia has New Zealand and Asia has South Korea. As you can see, there's nothing in South Korea
I hate the expression “Communist state”. How are you going to have a STATELESS state 😐
Based comment
In stateless communist states, the classless ruling communist class owns all of the moneyless money.
Also, every curve has to be straight there and they don't obey the laws of physics. Still think communism is cool?
@@lead_sommelier in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Democracy there is absolutely exceptional, ALL people vote and get represented via the great leader, hence Republic. It’s an example of Democracy, it’s in the name!
@@lead_sommelier So what you’re saying is that Communism is when no communism. Money is when no money. Freedom is when Tyranny. Right is wrong. Left is right. North is south. Shut the fuck up dumbass, don’t lecture me about the Comintern, I was there when the history was written. If you think the Comintern didn’t receive tremendous backlash from anti-capitalists you’re clearly not educated.
@@JoseRodriguez-pn8yj bro chill out I was making a joke lmao
compare the democracy rating of nations with "republic" and "democracy" with "kingdom" and "monarchy"
Ok so, then, logicaly speaking
If I were to fund a country, and I called it "the UNdemocratic republic of..." Would that, in turn, make it be more democratic?
The autocratic dictatorship of Stalinville
10 points
Sri Lanka was 69th on the list.
*Everyone liked that*
Me: *sees title*
Me: Ooh ho ho, this is gonna be guuuud
As a Sri Lanka I must say as a fellow Sri Lankan your statement was pretty accurate. Everyone in the comments... buurooa
"The UK has been democratic for over a thousand years right now" Yeah no
1000s of years
Lol 🤣
Is “average number of referendums in a year” included in any of those democracy rankings? If not, that’s a huge thing missed out.
0:37 As an Austrian, I am happy about this score =D
congrats, here in north korea we su-
👏👏👏👏👏
"Nepal is democratic, they can vote, but they are communist"
.... .... communists can have voting systems, yes. Thats a complete separate trait.
Capitalists can have fake-voting or non-voting systems too. A nice case of semi fake-voting is Singapore. A nice case of non-voting is Brunei.
Wait a second...!
Isn‘t the ruling party in the republic of moldova also a communist party?
Is it a minority component of a coalition? And is it smaller than Nepal?
idk about Norway and Sweden, but here in the Netherlands even though we have a monarch, we also have an entire government aside from that, who do the actual law making and stuff
the royals are more like glorified celebrities, they do have power, but aren't exclusive rulers
Next up do every country with “Republic” in its name, ranked by actual Republicanism.
When the US is not even in the top 10.
Every patriot in America ever:
*sweating intensifies*
Who would've thought that a country that lets rich people control the politics isn't democratic?
@@robuxyyyyyyyyyy4708 yeah, the us doesn't have democratic in their name but the concept still applies considering all the AmErIcA nUmBeR 1!!
Me an anarchist
No country is truly democratic
How do you think people would have safe, happy lives living in anarchy?
@@danielbartholomew4037
No state, No unjust hiearchy, direct democracy and decentralised communes wich work together
You have full control of your life
@@drageben145 And what exactly would that control entail? Crimes?
@@danielbartholomew4037 control with your community (local area) to do stuff like
Make laws
Build whatever
Concult with other communes
And directly vote on stuff
Though it's always different from wich anarchist you talk to and what ideology the adhere to though
Or what it is under praxis wich has most of the time succesful
@@drageben145 This sounds very similar to the democracy practiced in Athens
I thought Nepal was pretty free, like not super free like EU, UK, US, or Australia, but like, reasonably free.
Yes,it was but slowly law is changing after Communist party came in power.
All of these indices (democracy index, peace index, etc.) are quite *flawed*
Here we see Spain making the cut as a "full democracy," and the USA just missing the cut, i.e., a "flawed democracy." Yeah, riiiiight.
USA has serious, serious flaws in its democracy, and has slid down the ratings as these flaws have emerged and not been corrected
@@ibx2cat - We don't have the crime of "hate speech" (e.g., Canada does); we do have the right to bear arms (judgment call against the USA; not a civil liberty?). How democratic do many Catalonians consider Spain? Or Albertans - Canada? Or Scots - the UK? :-P
@@SilvanaDil Wow. I think you're getting confused between democracy and laws. Having the right to bear arms doesn't make you more democratic, a lot of countries would vote against it anyway - just like many vote for hate speech laws. The country votes for who represents them - not an american with a different point of view. The point is, if the countries don't like the laws they vote against the government and choose someone who better represents them, thus changing the law. You should also know that Scotland voted to stay in the UK - that is undemocratic?
P.S. In the UK (where i'm from) and China (where I live - yes i know it's not a democracy) the majority of the people don't want guns!
@@spicypanda6718 - But, Scotland wants to vote again. :-P
@@SilvanaDil Yes, a lot of them do, and they probably will at some point. It's just impractical to keep voting all the time. It's most likely they will not vote again after the UK has properly left the EU, then the Scottish people will have a clearer understanding on what they are voting for. They also need to wait for this because there needs to be reason for voting again (in this case leaving the EU)
YES YES, FINALLY, I was googleing this two months ago and had to do a manual list, because I wanted to include all the 70s soviet puppets that had democratic
Isn't Iceland the highest ranking republic?
*republic
It is, but it does not have the word Republic in its official name.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea scores a 25% in country name accuracy.
Now if it was the Authoritarian Kim Jung Un's Dictatorship of Korea, then it would get an A+!
3:40 When I first heard it's full name I was like "Oh the Bernie Sanders republic of Sri Lanka?"
I once again come to you for Sri Lanka
There is actually a lot more countries that have the word "Republic" in their official name, most European Countries have it in their official title... For example, I come from Austria, whose official name is "Republik Österreich" (REPUBLIC of Austria). A more prominent example would probably be the "Bundesrepublik Deutschland" (=Federal REPUBLIC of Germany).
"It's not full communism because they stll have elections and whatnot"
...
What do you think communism means?
socialism = no freedom
Is this a social experiment about reactions to a video without outro?