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Bias

This very biased, in my opinion. Calling the United States a pure democracy, under what statistics? There have obviously been non-democratic events within this democracy, and several ongoing fallacies, so I would claim this to not be true. Seeing as it is a self made map, that would confirm my thoughts.

Self-made map? Who's supposed to make it, someone who is not themselves? That wouldn't confirm anything.

Shade

I think it's too pale. You can barely see USA and Canada. I think you should either use a darker shade or change the colour of the sea. --Bsrboy 16:27, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

I second that, I would put the countries on a blue scale.

Just pick two colors, not one. Have it go from one color to another, not light to dark shades of one hue.

Estonia

Are you sure about Estonia?? It seems to be darker than Russia, Ukraine or Serbia. I haven't seen anywhere that Latvia and Lithuania are more democratic than Estonia. H2ppyme (talk) 21:06, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Estonia indeed scored lower than its neighbors, apparently for the most part thanks to its citizenship/disenfranchisement issues for ethnic minorities. 155.246.108.19 (talk) 05:39, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I found the reason for that already. Still, it's quite weird, putting Estonia to the same group with Iran..H2ppyme (talk) 14:13, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

It is lighter than Iran actually. It's on the same level as Serbia and Venezuela. Kami888 (talk) 19:39, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Iraq

Hi, the map is a bit out of date. Iraq has set democracy some years ago and its democratic system works better year to year —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.177.163.185 (talk) 19:23, 29 May 2010 (UTC)