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Quite a few, actually. Let's look at how the word is defined:

de·moc·ra·cy   /dɪˈmɒkrəsi/ Show Spelle[dih-mok-ruh-see] Show IPA

-noun, plural -cies.

1.government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.

2.a state having such a form of government: The United States and Canada are democracies.

3.a state of society characterized by formal equality of rights and privileges.

4.political or social equality; democratic spirit.

5.the common people of a community as distinguished from any privileged class; the common people with respect to their political power.

If you take this into account, and do a bit of independent research, you'll find there are a plethora of democratic countries (by varying degrees of course), besides the United States. You might even be surprised by some of them.

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The US is both a democracy and a republic. There's no reason why you can't be both. I'm sure you'd like to think of yourselves as democratic!

And as far as the original question goes, there are a lot of democracies in the world. Britain, Australia, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Greece, India, Singapore. I could go on.

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