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Windchaser·

> it seems pretty close to police state levels of power, corruption and control.

And: which country has the highest incarceration rate in the world?

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El Salvador?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...

In terms of absolute number of incarcerated persons, though, the US is ahead of everyone else by a country mile. Depending on which inmate pools you include or exclude, the US holds 20-25% of all incarcerated persons in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_ra...

> In terms of absolute number of incarcerated persons, though

They weren't asking about absolute numbers, though

>which country has the highest incarceration rate in the world?

Yes and if you look those rates have been going down for years. This used to be a big talking point years ago, not so much anymore.

Not an argument.

> [El Salvador (16.5/Mln), Cuba (8/Mln), Rwanda (6/Mln), Turkmenistan (5.5/Mln), United States (5.5/Mln)]

Damn! My info was out of date.

But it doesn't look great that we're up there with El Salvador (a failed state), Cuba, Rwanda (another failed state), and Turkmenistan

Of course. At this point further analysis must be qualitative then quantitative (why this and that, what properly describes the clusters etc.), but certainly some interpretation of your idea is defensible defining implicit subsets.

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