Of course it's not essential to live in a democracy. Pretty much nobody in the world lives in a democracy. Most people live in either representative republics o

Of course it's not essential to live in a democracy. Pretty much nobody in the world lives in a democracy. Most people live in either representative republics or monarchies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_system_of_government https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_system_of... There are very few countries that even tried a democracy - Switzerland is one of them, which is a hybrid between a republic and direct democracy.