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Well, it depends on your political preference. Strong social liberty or strong economic liberty or something in between? It depends on what's important to you.

Well, it depends on your political preference. Strong social liberty or strong economic liberty or something in between? It depends on what's important to you. Economic Freedom: http://www.heritage.org/index/ http://www.heritage.org/index/ Democracy Index: https://portoncv.gov.cv/dhub/porton.por_global.open_file?p_doc_id=1034 https://portoncv.gov.cv/dhub/porton.por_global.open_file?p_d... Human Development Index: http://hdr.undp.org/hdr4press/press/outreach/figures/HDI_Trends_2013.pdf http://hdr.undp.org/hdr4press/press/outreach/figures/HDI_Tre... Gun Freedom: http://www.freeexistence.org/gunindex.html http://www.freeexistence.org/gunindex.html Press Freedom: http://en.rsf.org/press-freedom-index-2013,1054.html http://en.rsf.org/press-freedom-index-2013,1054.html Drug Freedom: http://www.freeexistence.org/drugindex.html http://www.freeexistence.org/drugindex.html Various other stats: http://www.eiu.com/default.aspx http://www.eiu.com/default.aspx Just notice the trends - which countries are you seeing at the tops of most of the lists?

vacri 13y ago
It's curious that you mention libertarianism in your first comment, but the leaders in most of those lists are the social democracies.
- cpursley 13y ago
  Just providing options. Personally, I'm skewed towards economic freedom.
  - vacri 13y ago
    Sure, though there are plenty of small government countries out there that aren't hell-holes (eg Vanuatu). It's just that social democracy is really quite philosophically different to libertarianism - the underlying ethos being 'everyone gets support' instead of 'every man for himself'.