Among other things, one would certainly have to exclude any country which engages in the mass collection and permanent storage of all of its citizens' communications.
The alternatives have proven to involve a great deal less freedom.
Freedom is freedom for minority rights and opinions to not be quashed by the majority. Thus the term "the tyranny of the majority"
A majority can "not care" about systematic racial injustice and other inequities. The consent of the majority doesn't make the system "free".