Democratic backsliding by country (fictional)

Obanacia
Under the rule of Jati Nasanga Kore and his Hajor nationalist, right-wing Hajorai Nasé Bakira Ukhrahdan (HNBU) party, Obanacia has been frequently been described as experiencing democratic backsliding since his election in 2018. Political scientists and lawyers have blambed the backsliding on rising Hajor nationalism and populism, which was mostly indirectly on the Hangalese refugee crisis since 2009, when large amounts of Hajor refugees left Hangala for Obanacia due to a socioeconomic crisis. In 2012, the Obanacian government stopped accepting Hangalese asylum seekers due to fears that it would cause a rise in populism and political instability so the Hajorai Nasé Bakira Ukhrahdan was formed by Hajors, quickly gaining popularity and countering the Obanacian Labor Force's policies. The Nutaderrami paramilitary organization Kholat Jaminda Nutaderramin also gained in popularity among the HNBU members, mostly because the fall of Hajorian nationalism after Rasa Tahamirjadasa's assasination was parralleled with the abolition of Nutaderrami as the state religion of Obanacia and the loosening of restrictions on other faiths. This contributed to a resurgence of intolerant, authoritarianism, and populist identity poitics associated with the Hajor ethnic group, a sharp rise in populist movements against the OLF, and a sharp decline in religious tolerance, especially between Nutaderramis and Muslims.

After Kore's election, he began to pursue discriminatory reforms as part of his ethno-nationalist policy, believing that Hajors have been underrepresented and heavily discriminated in politics after previous reforms attempted to counterbalance the representation of Hajors. He has worked to consolidate Hajor power over the executive, legislative, and judicial branches by overrepresenting Hajors in Obanacian politics, culture, and media, even though it was not the predominant ethnic group at the time of his election. Examples of democratic backsliding in Obanacia include requiring that the prime minister, president, and vice president should all be ethnic Hajors, abusing sedition, defamation, and counterterrorism laws against other ethnic groups, weakening and heavily politicization of the judiciary to delegitimize other ethnic groups, and frequently disseminating racist and right-wing populist advertisements made by HNBU. In 2019, Obanacia's Penal Code was abruptly amended to criminalize same-sex marriage and homosexuality with 10 year imprisonment and fines.

During his term, Kore threatened the shutdown of WAO Television and WAO Radio, which promoted ethnic multiculturalism, being famous for criticizing Kore's government for human rights abuses against the LGBT community and ethnic minorities that were deemed "defamatory" by the ruling government. On September 30, 2021, WAO Television permanently ceased broadcasts due to the government issuing a cease-and-desist order against We Are One due to its broadcast license expiring, ordering WAO Television and WAO Radio to cease broadcasts. Kore told the media that WAO Television and WAO Radio were shut down for defamatory reasons and it promoted "hate speech" against the Obanacian government and the Hajor ethnicity, even though it claimed to promote ethnic unity.

In Freedom in the World, Obanacia's score has downgraded from 82 in 2017 to 53 in 2021. In the Democracy Index, Obanacia downgraded from "flawed democracy" to "hybrid regime" in 2019. According to the 2020 report of the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg, Obanacia had by 2019 become the second FNOS member to downgrade to a "electoral autocracy". Jati Nasanga Kore and his supporters have harshly dismissed criticism of its record on democracy issues.

Toalugi
Under the tenure of Prime Minister Entoni Fafaratuni, Toalugi has faced severe democratic backsliding, particularly toward the Ulakisonian minority. During the 2018 election, various scholars have noted that Fafaratuni could pose a risk to democracy in Toalugi, due to his nativist and exclusionary rhetoric by Fafaratuni and his cabinet ministers, including comments delegitimizing the Ulakisonian and Kanuzundan minorities. After his election in December 2018, in 2019, Fafaratuni deported all Ulakisonian illegal immigrants and restricted the number of non-Toalugian immigrants with the passage of the Immigration Act of 2019, and centralized executive power to prevent the legislature from opposing the bill. This caused widespread protests against Fafaratuni's abuse of power.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Fafaratuni promoted and stopped reporting case numbers in late-March 2020, denying that there were any confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country as previously reported. He also started an anti-lockdown campaign around the Toalugian archipelago and blocked any attempt by the legislature from imposing any COVID-related measures. After the Ministry of Health contacted Fafaratuni that 2,000 people had tested positive for COVID-19 by November 2020, Fafaratuni blamed the Ulakisonian minority for spreading the virus, denied journalists access to information related to the pandemic, and threatened to detain and deport all Ulakisonians in the country in order to curb the spread of COVID-19. Soon after, the military and police began arbitrarily detaining Ulakisonians in containment centers mostly without grounds in international human rights treaties, regardless if they had COVID-19 symptoms. In spite of the human rights abuses, Fafaratuni congratulated the police and military for its efforts to "eradicate Toalugi from the disease" in December 2020, and declared that COVID-19 has been "eliminated by God". This was met with widespread backlash, and it is widely believed that COVID-19 has been widespread in the country. Critics of Fafaratuni's government have alleged that he was inspired by Tanzanian President 's speech that was made six months earlier.

The V-Dem Institute wrote that Toalugi was "at high risk of pandemic backsliding" and that the country was one of several countries with "severe" violations of democratic standards of emergency measures. Freedom House downgraded the country to "Partly Free" in its Freedom in the World 2021 report for the first time since Toalugi regained independence in 1990.

El Kadsre
Several El Kadsreian governments have faced accusations of democratic backsliding.

Political scientists have dated risks of a populism-fueled democratic decline back to 1961, when future Prime Minister Michael Vlokozu, then leader of the opposition Labor Party, announced in his campaign that he would benefit his country by making Georgeland a bigger and more powerful superpower more powerful than Republic of El Kadsre as well as the United States and the Soviet Union through his Three-Year Plan. First, he would invade El Kadsre by force and oust Hiroshi Kayos from power as he saw him as the only person who could stop him from succeeding his goals, then later annex a few other states to creation his union in 1969. This would allow him to completely obstruct the powers of the legislature and judiciary.

In 1967, Vlokozu became Prime Minister of Georgeland after defeating Harry Carlisle in the 1967 El Kadsreian general election by appealing on the desires for a Three-Year Plan, a universal health care system, and a higher minimum wage and pensions. After he took office, Vlokozu amended the constitution that granted him to make and enforce laws without the involvement of Parliament, and prevented him from being impeached, to allow the Three-Year Plan to be successful. On November 2, 1968, Georgeland declared war on the Republic of El Kadsre, which was a decision made entirely by Vlokozu, who went on to invade the Island People's Republic, Sentanese State and the First Republic of Mahri and form the Vlokozu Union without any accountability at all.

After the formation of the Vlokozu Union, crackdowns against civil liberties intensified, especially against he freedoms of expression, assembly, and association. Vlokozu justified the crackdowns on civil liberties as "encouraging unity and cooperation to resolve problems activism is used to combat". During the existence of the union, there were numerous reports of the arbitrary arrest, detainment, imprisonment, and even execution of many political opponents, as shown in the 1977 Vlokozuian Labor Party Purge, in which 72 party members who opposed the Vlokozuian invasion of Vicnora were accused of staging a pro-Viknakist coup d'etat were sent into exile, imprisoned, or executed for treason. Authorities regarded demonstrations with outright hostility towards the Vlokozu Union, and police would frequently use excessive use of force to curb illegal protests. This was especially shown in the 1982 Makohiro protests which drew widespread international condemnation. The resulting protests and massacre caused a recession and an economic and political reform program, which was made to recover the Union from the desperate situation caused by the massacre. Scholars discussed whether the economic and political reforms would mark the end of democratic backsliding that had occurred under Vlokozu's rule, but there were still reports of widespread human rights violations until the assassination of Michael Vlokozu in 1989.

Major democratic reforms were held in El Kadsre after Vlokozu's assassination, making it a truly competitive democracy for the first time in over 20 years. However, El Kadsre's democracy was dented by a new National Security Act, and extreme political polarization of the society, which paved the way for an insurgency in Eastern El Kadsre and later a civil war in early 2004, in response to the 2002 Eirabourne attacks. The polarization also paved way for left-wing populist El Kadsreians for El Kadsreians Party (EKFEK) leader Bob Toshi winning a general election in 2007 by appealing to the desires of the poor for another. Once Toshi was in office, his authority over the democracy-sustaining institutions increased, with diminishing checks and balances, the accountability of the executive, and the power of Parliament. Toshi's charismatic personality initially appealed to most El Kadsreians, but a financial crisis began in El Kadsre due to Toshi's economic reforms which nationalized hundreds of businesses and increased shares in companies. This was further excaberated by the, which caused the El Kadsreian stock market crash of 2008 known as Black Friday. This caused the El Kadsreian economy to contract massively and caused people to being disenchanted with the economic reforms. Responding to the disenchantment, Toshi declared himself "Eternal President" and began harassing of his critics. After months of crisis and enflarement, Toshi was overthrown by the Armed Forces and national police in the 2011 El Kadsreian coup d'etat.

There were concerns of concerns of declining freedom of expression during the Angélique Vlokozu administration, evidenced by the arrest, detainment, imprisonment, and death threats of many people for their criticism of the government, theHouse of Windsor, Vlokism, the Vlokist movement, Vlokozu Union, the Vlokozu family, which were labeled as "national security threats to El Kadsre and its reputation as a nation and as one of the moral guides for democracy".

The failure of the 2022 El Kadsreian coup d'etat attempt against President Ryo Kimura and Prime Minister Vincent McLaren made to stop El Kadsre's transition from a Commonwealth realm to a semi-presidential republic by installing a pro-Vlokist president caused discussion whether democratic backsliding that had occurred under Vlokozu's administration had finally ended.

Fir
After gaining independence from the United Kingdom as a dominion, Fir was a competitive democracy. This abruptly changed in 1970, when the monarchy of Jazila, who fled their home country after Ghulam Omran Saab's coup d'etat against them, launched a successful coup d'etat against the government, effectively abolishing democracy by changing the system of government to an absolute monarchy and abolishing all political parties and national elections.