The Polity IV scale is a yearly assessment that assesses most sovereign states with a population above 500,000. They are split into five categories: full democracies, democracies, open anocracies, closed anocracies, and autocracies.Status by country:Full Democracies (Score of 10):United StatesCanadaUnited KingdomGermanyJapanDemocracies (Score of 9 to 6):Mexico (8 points)Brazil (8 points)France (9 points)Turkey (9 points)India (9 points)Open anocracies (Score of 5 to 1):Venezuela (4 points)Nigeria (5 points)Russia (4 points)Closed anocracies (Score of -1 to -5):Morocco (-3 points)Egypt (-3 points)Afghanistan (-1 point)Autocracies (Score of -6 to -10):Cuba (-7 points)Syria (-9 points)Iran (-7 points)China (-7 points)North Korea (-10 points)