Resolves at the classification of the UK according to the Regimes of the World data, up to now published by V-DEM, in 2026.
Update 2025-10-23 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): The market will resolve according to the Regimes of the World classification system, which uses the following categories:
Closed autocracy
Electoral autocracy
Electoral democracy
Liberal democracy
Update 2026-04-04 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): The 2026 V-Dem report contains data for 2025, not 2026. The market will resolve based on data that reflects the classification for the correct year, and the description will be updated to clarify this.
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I think this can resolve: https://www.v-dem.net/documents/75/V-Dem_Institute_Democracy_Report_2026_lowres.pdf
@Tetraspace The description says "published in 2026", with an end date in 2026. It seems unreasonable to read that as a 2027 report with 2026 data.
Non-representative "democracy", it's ridiculous, but we're hardly the only country to be operating under exactly that contradiction.