Everyone wants to crush their citizens. Except Iceland, maybe.
- small size
- decentralized/local government structure
- limited geopolitical influence
- high level of education of the population
- history/culture of democracy
Large, powerful states with a lesser educated population will inevitably drift towards totalitarianism over time. This implies the use of various means of population control, with total surveillance being first and foremost.
How about India?
Don't treat states or societies as people, they are not people rather they are made of people. Totalitarianism isn't the outcome of a system it rather the outcome of the people oppress and the cowards who do nothing to stop it.
Sure, at the National political level, it's a democracy.
But there are several issue that allow citizens of some lesser democratic states enjoys more freedom in some cases... (it's very un-even though)
Religious rights, women's rights... Or the amount of power that some have at the local level (cast issues, landowners, etc..).
Any country left that actually cares about freedom, other than Germany?
A lot of people will pretend that porn is about freedom, that selling sex is about freedom, that selling drugs is about freedom... And while you can make arguments for all those things, that's not to say that any kind of legislation by definition is "anti-freedom". Legislation can be a means to enforce freedoms too.
Last time I checked (5 minutes ago), we didn't. (german speaking)
"DER VERRAT – BND und Bundesregierung gegen deutsche Interessen"
(in english: "THE TREASON – BND and federal government vs. German interests")
you really can’t say the country cares about freedom :/