Literal question
People have different views about the system for governing this country. Here is a scale for rating how well things are going: 1 means very bad; 10 means very good
Where on this scale would you put the political system as it was ...........
[in former communist countries: under communist regime]
[ in countries where recently a change of regime has taken place: under the xxx regime;]
[ in countries where no regime change has taken place: ten years ago]?