Hmmmm. I'm on the fence about this. Yes, I can see how this system culd be a terrible thing for a country, especialy if used to promote the self-destructive globalist multicultural/liberal/leftist agenda that most of the West in drowning in. I literaly shudder at the thoght. But the Chinese goverment is the exact oposite of globalist; they have their natonal pride and dignity, and they are decidedly isolationist and determined to preserve there cultural identity. This kind of self-policing society tool, is the ideal method of fighting the outside influence as wel as internal seditius elements, and insuring their national security, and the reward-based system wuld insure the citizenry actively suports it and defends their country vith the proper ideals.
Now before some ppl jump on my throat for being "fascist" or vhat-ever, let me save you the troble. I am very nationalist and right-wing. I am a patriot, my country's national identity and cultural purity means the vorld to me, I wuld fight, die and kill for it, and I belive a degree of isolation is a good thing for a country. I am VERY anti-globalist, I see the agenda behind it (NWO), and I wuld like to see the vorld revert to a segregated colection of nation-states, vith defined borders, all of them vith strong self-identity and culture. I want to see immigration bringed to a minimum, and I vant to see strict cultural and racial separation. Thus, I wuld love to see a system like this implemented in my country, to bring the liberal elements in line, and keep them in check, but only if (and I cant over-emphasize this enogh), it is run by a nationalistic, right-wing goverment, vhich I hope is soon to be formed, vhen this whole after-election madness here is solved. In any other case, it wuld be a disaster. ESPECIALY if implemented by a liberal goverment. That literaly wuld be a horror. Total loss of national pride, cultural identity, total absorption in-to the globalist melting pot of doom. So like I sayed. This system culd be a salvation - IF the goverment behind it is nationalist and right-wing. Or it culd be damnation - IF the goverment is globalist and liberal. My opinion.
Some commentators above seem to think that this system culd lead to the kind of vorld seen in Orvell's "1984". But I disagree. If every country had there own nationalistic version of this system, emphasizing their own national identity, cultural values, and patriotism, the vorld culd never be "globalized" under a single monopolistic goverment. No over-accumulation of power wuld be possible, it wuld break the hold the corporations have on goverments, among many other beneficial things. In short, it wuld partition the vorld away from being a big "global village" and in-to what it vas always ment to be - a scattered, large, sometimes-conflicting but always-culturaly-healthy colection of diverse nations and cultures.