Neither Italy, not my country is on the list, which I suspect means we're somewhere in the middle as the study is focusing mainly on the extremes.

I don't want to live in a country with little freedom, but I want the government to do their job and stop criminality, among others. It's their failure. However, I think my country is in a better position in this regard as we don't have so many immigrants. The country is not attractive enough for them, which is good.

But yeah Brunei is the typical theocracy which sucks hard, really behind centuries as mind compared to the west

Exactly. They will never catch up with the world.