map

Someone accidentally posted this link in an IRC channel and since I was curious I checked it out. It's a pretty nice and functional map of freedom in the world, mapping countries in three categories: not free, partly free and free.

From a quick survey of the map it looks like the half of the world, and counting such highly populated places like China, even more than half live without essential freedoms, which is quite sad.

Yet, if we push the boundaries in terms of defining true freedom for an individual I think even more countries would be in the "partly free" category, but that's another discussion.

This is a map of current GNU/Linux distributions and how they relate. Excellent reference source.