22 March 2013/10 Jumada l-Ula 1434/02 Farvardin 1391/11 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711

According to the 2012 Democracy Index, published on Thursday by the Economist Intelligence Unit, the U.S. supported regime of Republic of Korea (ROK aka South Korea) ranks higher in Democratic values than the United States!

South Korea ranked 31st out of 167 countries/territories.  Both the United States, France, Japan and United Kingdom were ranked below ROK (so much for being the World’s leaders in democracy).

South Korea did see a drop in the Civil Liberties ranking, and their democracy is being called “flawed”.

Scandinavian countries are the tops for democratic values.

Don’t worry, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK aka North Korea) came in last place.