Other than city states, there is not one country that is rich and not a democracy. I know you can say that democracy is a luxury of the rich, that they all got rich before becoming democracies yada yada. None of that is true. They all got to middle income before democracy.`
The closest thing you get to a counterexample is resource rich Kazakhstan. Here's a map of HDI by country.pic.twitter.com/QnsYaZv7Uj
