A recent Ipsos survey showed that China was the country with the highest proportion of happy people, at 91%.[1]
A 2020 survey by Harvard researchers showed similar results. [2]
People living in autocracies are far less dissatisfied with their systems of government as democracy minded Westerners like myself might assume.
[1] https://www.ipsos.com/en/global-happiness-six-points-last-ye...
[2] https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/long-term-sur...