North Korea wtf?

Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)
Dunno whether this has been asked before or not but since when did north korea adopted democracy...?

'cus it sounds old fashioned if they call themselves monarchy, amirite?

and China is the People's Republic of.  Names are not illustrative.

There's Congo too: "Democratic Republic of the Congo".

A general rule of thumb: the longer the official title of a country, the more dictatorial the government. If they include "democracy" or "people" anywhere in the title, you can be absolutely certain.

republic generally means it's a centralized nonmonarchal government, as opposed to feudal states or monarchy.

People, usually refers to the proletariat.

Yeah even Amerikkka calls itself a democracy these days. WTF is up with that.

"The government of the United States may be accurately categorized as a republic or as a liberal democracy."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DPRK
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oh i wonders

maybe it's true that "knowledge is power", but there's a difference between knowledge and trivia.

If I recall properly, there is no true democracy in this world, because no country bases its government on ancient Athens. It's not a direct democracy, properly, it's a representative democracy or an "elective aristocracy".

Direct democracy doesn't scale, at least for now. It may be possible in a few decades due to technical advancement, although I wonder if anyone will take advantage of that fact.

Life is a bit more complex now than it was 2,300 years ago. The number facts and possibilities to be considered for some decisions are several orders of magnitude larger.

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I understand wholly how impractical direct democracy is, and I've completely forgotten my point.

Oh, and "freedom" is completely guarantee-able by an autocracy. All "rights" are in fact part of an agreement made by the government with the governed, and both parties reserve the decision to break the agreement at any time, though natural consequences will result.

I've completely forgotten my point.

Me too.

They didn't adopt democracy. I don't really understand it, as I can't see how anyone would seriously believe that NK is a people's democracy, but apparently, the government officials think that they are fooling people into thinking they are free (a la the Matrix or something).