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Today it is commonly accepted by most people who aren't wide-eyed university students that Liberal Democracy is a historical dead-end. Only a handful of countries, such as the American Free State and the Australian Republic, even attempt to adhere to a façade of Liberal Democracy, and they are mostly economic backwaters riddled with corruption and degeneracy. Yet this wasn't always the case. For a while some of the most powerful countries in the world were Liberal Democracies, and many regarded it as the epitome of civilised rule (the past is a strange country).

Although I'm sceptical of its possibility, what would the world look like if Liberal Democracy had been able to thrive despite its decadent and degenerate tendencies.

OOC: For the record I do think democracy and liberalism are good things and we should have more of it.
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