I don't think there will be a day a full democracy or a full dictatorship existing in the world.
Each democracies have thing of a dictatorship in its system.
Each dictatorship have things of a democracy in its system.
For example multipartism even if limited in some of dictatorship like the defunct
"Democratic German Republic" more know as
"East Germany" is an example of a dictatorship with a democratic features even if limited.
In democracy multipartism can be limited like in the nowadays
"Federal Republic of Germany" where political parties against the constitution of this state are outlawed.
I take the example of multipartism because for me this is the easier to understand.
Each political regimes evolve over time. For example the French Republic
(We are at the fifth republic that began in 1958. I'm a citizen of this state since I'm born and I did never had another citizenship) of 1958 isn't exactly the same in 2020
(I'm writing this message in August 2020) because there were evolution even if this is the same regime.
Each political regimes of the world are unique because they are all in a particular historical and geographical context and compare two regimes or more is inappropriate for this reason.
For example there are points in commons between the deceased
"People's Republic of Poland" in 1986 that have common things with the defunct
"Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" at the same time like some ideological things in common but they have things that distinguish them like their respective position about USSR dissolved in 1991 that are radically different
(Poland was member of "Warsaw pact" officially know in English as "Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance" for which Soviet Union was the main member when Yugoslavia wasn't).
I don't think there are a country better than another because there are all different in all matters.
Country
"A" can be better in matter
"Alpha" than country "
B" but country
"B" can be better than country
"A" in matter
"Bravo".
They can be at the same level in matter
"Charlie".
I use fictions countries names and fictions name for matters to explain things in a generic way.
I consider each places of the world as prisons because there are no place where you're free because freedom for me is equal to anomie
(Wikipedia explain this concept).
You can change of penitentiaries but you can only live in one of these.
In some of them food is better but water is worse than your.
In some of them food is worse but water is better than your.
In some of them food is better and the water is better than yours and in some of them these two things are worse than yours.
Those imprisoned where already imprisoned by the rules of the society in which they live before going in a prison.
Those in an asylum to execute a criminal conviction
(I'm not speaking of those who weren't convicted because they were considered as irresponsible of theirs acts) are in a triple prison that is
"the society + prison for criminal conviction + asylum".
The worse situation is the quadruple prison
"the society + prison for criminal conviction + guardianship + asylum".
I'm a French citizen who lived his whole life in French Republic. I dream to leave the territory of this state for many reasons but I don't forget leave it means only being displaced in another jail.
What we perceive to be a democracy can be seen as a dictatorship by others and vice-versa.
Each political regimes have democratic things and undemocratic things.
You will never find a state that is fully democratic or fully dictatorship.
There are not an universal manner to note a country on a particular matter and if there are not universal manners to do it we can't compare countries in all matters with an universal system.
Each of these have different parameters
(Each parameters is important) and are managed by different entities and the entity who manage it can influence the objectivity of the system of comparison. Never forget no one is objective in political matters.
See this list of freedom indices :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_freedom_indicesDemocracy Ranking ,
Freedom in the World ,
DD Index and
Democracy Index are four different index to make a comparison between countries about democratic rights.
None of them use the same methodology and none of them is operated by the same entity.
None of these index can be objective as I did already explained. Politic isn't a science.
We all agree that 2*2 = 4 but we don't all agree about political questions because these are subjective.
If you had a choice between a city in country A and another in country B your choice depend of how do you perceive the political regime of country A and country B without forget how do you perceive politic at the level of the city and province etc...
Your perception of a politic system are based on your religious and political belief , culture , what do you want and don't want , what you like and don't like etc...
You can prefer a city to another because of yours hobbies.
If you're a surfer you will likely prefer a city in which you can practice this activity than a city in which you can't.
You can prefer a city to another because of your job.
If you're a manufacturer of fire weapons you will certainly prefer an American city than a Japanese city because there are more opportunities in a city of North America than a city of Asia because the market is bigger and there are less legal constraint in NA than Asia.
If you're family live in a city you will likely prefer to live there if you are in good terms with your family.
If the majority of yours friends live in a certain city you will likely prefer to live where they are.
