As hard to believe as it may be to some people, money controls the world..it goes in a hierarchy like this:

Money->Rich Businessmen->Political Leaders(Bush and etc)->Normal Businessnes->Normal People->Poor people

Those countries who choose not to be under the money people, are considered possible enemy countries..SUCH as our muslim countries who HATE the western ways BUT still are being forced to succomb to it (ex: Iraq and etc)...

before anyone starts flaming, please do some UNBIASED research reading..

oh and:

democracy is an illusion created by those who do not have power

(take from matrix 2, he says it about choice which comes true for democracy)