There would not be many choices for someone that wanted to move to a socialist country. There are only four in the world: PRC (mainland China), Republic of Cuba, Lao People’s Democratic Republic and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. These countries once had Communist governments but that isn’t entirely true anymore.
However, there are 189 countries (of the 193 that are members of the United Nations) that are not socialist but do have socialist programs/policies.
Socialism and communism are ideological doctrines that have many similarities as well as many differences. One point that is frequently raised to distinguish socialism from communism is that socialism generally refers to an economic system, and communism generally refers to both an economic system and a political system.
The fall of communism in the Soviet Union does not mean socialism failed. It means that the autocratic one-party system that defines communism failed.
Russia, for example…
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Lloyd Lofthouse 
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