Compared say to democracies in the US/UK/France etc that are 100 or more years old. Trying to think of totalitarian equivalents that have lasted into a country achieving 1st World status?
Every single first world country was either already a democracy before industrialization ("the west"+Turkey), was totalitarian until it was invaded by the US and forced to become democratic (Japan, Germany, Korea, Austria), or is comprised of people who fled a totalitarian nation to found their own democratic nation next door (Taiwan).
