Poor. [1, 2] Pretty much everything bad that the US does, these countries do worse by an order of magnitude. We use hyperbole to compare Snowden to political prisoners in these countries, but I imagine that idea would seem pretty ridiculous to a real political prisoner in China or NK or Russia.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Democracy_Index&ol...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_in_the_World