I'd rather not live in a police state, and I think I speak for many Americans when I say that. Singapore can kind of get away with it because it is so small, but we can see what it looks like when scaled to a large country by looking at Modern China. I'll take some crime and something less than stellar education, as a national average, than have to contend with a government who welds people in their apartments, creates "reeducation camps" for minorities, and disappears business leaders.