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An Islamic emirate ruled by the Taliban since 2021, Afghanistan is governed by a clerical supreme leader who imposes a strict interpretation of sharia, bars women from education and work, and faces economic crisis and isolation.
Political topics
Leans further toward autocracy than 92% of the 325 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Representation is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Nationalism, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 263 ideologies
Project that seeks to organize state and society according to the strict interpretation of a religious doctrine, subordinating laws, customs, and politics to sacred precepts and rejecting modern secularism.
Stance that rejects modernity and seeks to restore the pre-revolutionary order, defending monarchy, religion, tradition, and hierarchy against Enlightenment rationalism, liberalism, and democracy.
Conception that defines the nation by shared origin, language and descent, defending a state for the majority ethnic group and the preservation of its identity, which usually implies membership criteria tied to ancestry.
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Techno-AnarchismAnarchist22%
Qajar monarch who ruled Persia for nearly half a century, introducing telegraphs, postal services, and photography while navigating British and Russian colonial rivalries.
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In civil war since 2023 between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, after Bashir's fall in 2019 and the 2021 coup, Sudan faces famine, mass displacement, state collapse and rivalry among regional powers.
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The first dynastic caliphate of Islam, based in Damascus, the Umayyad Caliphate ruled from 661 to 750, expanded from Spain to India, arabized administration and coinage and favored the Arab elite over converts until overthrown by the Abbasids.
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