So, with all the talk about Equestria being a dictatorship, i decided to measure Equestria's score in the Global Freedom Index — the internationally-recognized yardstick for determining which countries are dictatorships. As you can see, Equestria is in the Not Free category, where dictatorships like Turkey and China reside. Though they're on the upper boundary of that category, with a freedom score just one point above Erdogan's regime.

Not to mention there are no protections against slavery/indetured servitude, the military is in charge of athletic performances, due process does not exist, uniform punishments for children and adults, "State Sec" kids (SMILE) being ultra-secretive, no separation of government branches, and, uhh… Oh, yeah:

Add Q/Discretionary question: Is the government or occupying power deliberately changing the ethnic composition of a country or territory so as to destroy a culture or tip the political balance in favor of another group?
Points deduction: -1 (changeling situation)

And that takes points off the political rights score and by proxy, the global freedom score.

What do you think? Anything you'd like to change?