No, just choose issues that give your people political freedom. Though it will be harder to change from dictatorship to democratic, it can happen.
Yep. Of course, it will be extremely difficult with the way issues are sent out...yeah. I got some pretty good ones and my nation was looking fairly decent, but then I started looking at some of them and I don't want half of the foolish people that live in my country run it! So, it'll be an Iron Fist Consumerist..............