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Real political scientists measure democracy on five sliders, not a single yes/no. Slide each one and see what kind of country you've built — the regime label below updates as you move.
V-Dem (Varieties of Democracy) is an academic project at the University of Gothenburg that scores every country in the world across hundreds of indicators of democracy, then aggregates them into five "high-level principles" — the same five sliders you have here.
This page is a deliberately simplified, playable version: real V-Dem uses 470+ indicators rated by thousands of country experts. The point isn't precision; it's the idea that democracy isn't one thing. A country can have free elections AND weak rights (an illiberal democracy), or high participation AND low rights (plebiscitary populism), or both pillars but no consensus-sharing (a majoritarian liberal democracy).
Source & further reading: v-dem.net · the dataset · codebook (PDF).