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I guess it depends on your definition of 'highly advanced'. Some mightn't consider having and needing ever more extreme weaponry, an increasing shortage of prisons, ever increasing crime rates, drug abuse, homelessness, depression, a huge pollution problem, 'enter at your own risk' neighbourhoods, and corruption by the highest powers ('I didn't have sex with her, she tricked me and I unwittingly stuck my you know what in her mouth while I was saving the world'... or 'weapons of mass destruction, they are there, they are just invisible and the idiots we hired to find them haven't got a clue, so lets have a war, and show what some good ol' boys from texas can do') as highly advanced.