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What's your reasoning for places like Switzerland and Norway, where the government is much more involved in day-to-day life, but less militarized in that involvement? Same goes for most of the European countries, and Canada/New Zealand et al. as well.

Certainly you could point out other countries with both a lot of government involvement and a militarized police force, but I think there's a strong argument that the two are orthogonal - that the degree of plutocracy is a better correlation.