Which best describes a social democracy? a country where industry is in private hands and military forces control the government a country where the government controls the economy but allows free elections and other civil liberties a country where the government controls the economy and bans free elections and other civil liberties a country where most workers live in communes and share goods and property

The answer is option 2: A country where the government controls the economy but allows free elections and other civil liberties.

Social democracy is the term for the political ideology that makes a gradual and peaceful country's transition from Capitalism to Socialism by democratic means.

Though every country makes different policies in this progressive transition, the ideology is characterized for state regulation and intervention in several elements of the economy, and other aspects of the economy, promotion of social programs and civil liberties such as freedom of expression, right to equal treatment, right to privacy, etc. Therefore, it eludes militancy and totalitarianism.