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VAT / 2026
Vatican City
Not assessed
→Stable2026 development data - not published research
/25
Institutional score
The score supports the assessment. It does not compute the status on its own.
Judicial independencenot assessed / 5
Media freedomnot assessed / 5
Electoral integritynot assessed / 5
Civic space & human rightsnot assessed / 5
Checks & balancesnot assessed / 5
Confidence: high. Confidence reflects evidence quality and assessment certainty, not democratic quality.
Direction analysis
The polity is not directly comparable with ordinary electoral-democratic systems under the current methodology.
What changed
No standard annual democratic-institution assessment is applied.
RETHINKK assessment
RETHINKK marks this polity as not assessed rather than forcing a misleading democratic classification.
Evidence
- V-Dem InstituteDemocracy Report 2026: Unraveling The Democratic Era?2026-03-17 / 2026-08-30Source ->Supports: judicialIndependence, mediaFreedom, electoralIntegrity, civicSpace, checksAndBalances
- Freedom HouseFreedom in the World 20262026-03-19 / 2026-08-30Source ->Supports: judicialIndependence, mediaFreedom, electoralIntegrity, civicSpace, checksAndBalances
History
2026not_assessed→Stable