And what exactly is the definition of democracy are you basing that of?
https://www.newsweek.com/most-china-call-their-nation-democracy-most-us-say-america-isnt-1711176
When asked whether they believe their country is democratic, those in China topped the list, with some 83% saying the communist-led People’s Republic was a democracy. A resounding 91% said that democracy is important to them.
But in the U.S., which touts itself as a global beacon of democracy, only 49% of those asked said their country was a democracy. And just over three-quarters of respondents, 76%, said democracy was important.
For instance, some 63% in the U.S. said their government mainly serves the interests of a minority, while only 7% said the same in China. Asked about whether their country held free and fair elections and offered all citizens the right to free speech, nearly a third of respondents in the U.S., 32% and 31%, respectively, said they did not, while just 17% and 5%, respectively, in China answered the same questions negatively.
And in China, a mere 5% also said not everyone enjoys equal rights in their country, as opposed to 42% who identified this same issue in the U.S.
My take on simulation theory is that it describes the conscious experience of dreams and reality.
The conscious aspect of the human psyche exists in a simulation created by the unconscious. Hence the perception of reality is nothing but a dream chained to the material world by unconscious’s interpretation of the senses. Given the physical limitation of human eyes and ears, the ability to perceive and navigate in 3D can only be possible by the unconscious reconstructing a doppelganger of the material world. In a way that is similar to the architecture of an intelligent agent.
What counts as the present, the current second, millisecond or nano second? In such an infinitely small slice of time sight and sound contains little information. They can only mean something through the temporal accumulation of data creating an imagined perspective.
Consciousness can not exist without this simulation hence the inability to perceive the state of being a sleep but not dreaming. In spite of complex thought still occurring during that period.