[Bug?] Inoffensive Centrist Democracy with no elections

[Resalt]

Hello. Put a question mark because I'm not sure if it's an actual bug, or just a quirk of how the classification system works.

So recently I got issue #466, "(country name) Is Never Ever Getting Back Together... Like Ever", and it involved one guy seceding because he wasn't on the map.
I picked option 3, granting greater autonomy to try and quell the secessionist movements.

What happened as a result, and why I think there's a bug, is that my nation has become classified as an Inoffensive Centrist Democracy instead of being a Father Knows Best State. As well, the description for my country mentions that the citizens "take part in free and open elections, though not too often.".
There's just one major issue. The Autocracy policy is still active, meaning that the country doesn't actually hold elections.

Like said at the start, I'm not 100% sure if it's a bug or if we're holding elections, collecting votes, and then throwing them all in the garbage. The latter would actually be kinda funny, to be honest.

[Aclion]

WA classifications, like inoffensive Centrist Democracy, don't reflect policies, they're derived from the state of your civil rights, political freedom and economic freedom(not economy, a different one)

[Trotterdam]

Government classifications are based on your three freedom scores. The thing is, political freedom depends on many things, so even a nation without elections can have relatively high political freedoms if it meticulously protects the right to free speech. (If this seems questionable, consider the opposite: clearly a nation that holds elections but also harshly suppresses opinions contrary to the ruling party should have low political freedoms.) Hence, even though you're not a democracy, the WA is fooled into thinking you are because your political freedoms are high enough. Possibly this means that even though there is no formal voting procedure, your dictator does listen to his subjects and respects their opinions when there is an obvious consensus, or at least gives all petitioners a chance to justify their position before deciding whether to agree. (Considering how many elections in real life are decided 51%-49%, the existence of an obvious consensus is by no means certain, so there are plenty of subjects where you still get to demonstrate contempt for majority rule as a decision method.)

[Ghost Land]

Government classifications are based on your three freedom scores. The thing is, political freedom depends on many things, so even a nation without elections can have relatively high political freedoms if it meticulously protects the right to free speech. (If this seems questionable, consider the opposite: clearly a nation that holds elections but also harshly suppresses opinions contrary to the ruling party should have low political freedoms.) Hence, even though you're not a democracy, the WA is fooled into thinking you are because your political freedoms are high enough. Possibly this means that even though there is no formal voting procedure, your dictator does listen to his subjects and respects their opinions when there is an obvious consensus, or at least gives all petitioners a chance to justify their position before deciding whether to agree. (Considering how many elections in real life are decided 51%-49%, the existence of an obvious consensus is by no means certain, so there are plenty of subjects where you still get to demonstrate contempt for majority rule as a decision method.)

This is one of the foundations of my ideal OOC government system. And I can confirm what has been said in here so far; once on 60s Music I was an Inoffensive Centrist Democracy and almost a New York Times Democracy without having elections.

[Merconitonitopia]

This same principle applies with your economic system as well, hence communist countries with no private sector are described as 'Capitalist Paradise' for having high economic freedom in spite of their socialism. Though I've never seen it pulled off myself, you could theoretically have a socialist dictatorship described as an 'Anarchy'.

The category system gets sillier when you consider the descriptions they carry in your nation's overview. A Capitalist Paradise is run by a 'conglomerate of multinational corporations' even if no private industry exists; the citizens of an Anarchy 'live in a state of perpetual fear' as per a 'complete breakdown of social order' even if a strong police force has crime well under control; and the working class of a Capitalizt 'are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases' even if the poor make a lot of money, obesity is high, and public healthcare is excellent.

The WA tends to make a lot of assumptions when they place you into a category.

[Trotterdam]

This same principle applies with your economic system as well, hence communist countries with no private sector are described as 'Capitalist Paradise' for having high economic freedom in spite of their socialism. Though I've never seen it pulled off myself, you could theoretically have a socialist dictatorship described as an 'Anarchy'.

I've never gotten a dictatorship to have high political freedoms rather than just middling, although I've never really tried, and I've gotten a democracy to have low political freedoms (in fact, I've gotten a Psychotic Dictatorship classification in a nation that's still holding elections).

In fact, I can find two nations with the Autocracy policy and a high-political-freedom category right now: Universal Utopian State (Liberal Democratic Socialists) and Guila Naquitz (Civil Rights Lovefest). Neither is actually an Anarchy.

Nations with the Socialism flag and high Economic Freedom are more common: 17 known to me right now, with Amediana (Compulsory Consumerist State) having the highest Economic Freedom, while Nu States of America (Anarchy) has high freedoms across the board, although it isn't an Autocracy, hence why it wasn't included above. Cancers is an example of a Corporate Police State, Lanzarote is a Capitalist Paradise, and Desert Cat is Capitalizt.

Keep in mind that this search is limited to just non-WA nations that are actively answering issues.

The WA tends to make a lot of assumptions when they place you into a category.

Chalk it up to incompetent WA bureaucrats applying their prejudices. And they wonder why I have no respect for their organization.

[Bears Armed]

The WA tends to make a lot of assumptions when they place you into a category.

Chalk it up to incompetent WA bureaucrats applying their prejudices. And they wonder why I have no respect for their organization.

Compared to the mistakes that they make when estimating national populations...

^_^

[Trotterdam]

Compared to the mistakes that they make when estimating national populations...

Mistakes? Nah, I'm sure that my nation having more than twice the population of Earth has a perfectly rational explanation.

[Merconitonitopia]

(in fact, I've gotten a Psychotic Dictatorship classification in a nation that's still holding elections).

Been there. Merconitonitopia is a notorious 'nominal democracy'. I like to think the government's just trying to hold up a veneer of democracy (granted, we are going through a bit of democratic phase right now).
Your nation appears to be an excellent example of the opposite.

Mistakes? Nah, I'm sure that my nation having more than twice the population of Earth has a perfectly rational explanation.

You're actually about 120 million short of that if we take the recent estimate of 7.7 billion. Give it a few weeks I suppose.