One of those is a city state, and two of them have a population comparable to Sydney, one comparable to New York.

In other conversations it’s widely argued that those four probably don’t map very well to the larger, more diverse in every way, Western Democracies.

That leaves Germany, which has its problems.

If Germany hadn’t shut down their nuclear power plants they could have had 94% low emissions electricity by now, rather than 64% and much more costly.

The German economy is so well managed they’ve introduced rent-control in some cities.

Absolute paragon of a Western Democracy!