Your statements are kinda unrelated? Or what do you mean by participating in democracy, in autocracies? Ironically, I see a lot more leaning towards dystopian

Your statements are kinda unrelated? Or what do you mean by participating in democracy, in autocracies? Ironically, I see a lot more leaning towards dystopian tendencies in the West, mostly the US, as technology advances to the point of singularity (or near singularity, where most low and midskilled jobs are automated away). Meanwhile these autocratic countries have had strong welfare systems for their citizens and increasingly now their residents, since God knows when, and are well positioned to reap the benefits of an AI boom, given their smaller population sizes.