I agree with Ramil, about the hypocrisy of democracy.

Plato the Greek philosopher, writes in one of his main books that a good dictatorship is better than a good democracy because it is more efficient. However, a good dictatorship can very easily turn into a bad dictatorship - and for that reason he supports democracy because at least there you can get rid of the bad leadership (assuming elections work, and public opinion is not manipulated).

In a way it's almost more "honest" with a dictatorship, because then you know where you stand.

However, police and authorities in democracies generally treat the population a bit better, don't they?

If you have a serious issue, you can complain without being worried of harassment.
And don't you think there is some relevance to the fact that countries that have a higher level of (percieved) democracy, tend to have a higher level of material living standards? Or is that a side effect of their general deviousness?

Corruption can exist just as well in democracies though - for example India. According to Indian people that I know, you can't get anything done without a bribe, and the elections are corrupt too, because a lot of votes are bought in the crudest possible way - many of the inhabitants don't really understand how the democracy is supposed to work, and why they should not sell their votes.