A Muslim-majority parliamentary republic in the Balkans, Albania is a secular state with strong interfaith coexistence, a market economy after the end of Enver Hoxha's communist regime, NATO membership, and candidacy for the European Union.
Political topics
Leans further toward irreligious than 80% of the 325 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Religion is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Power, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 263 ideologies
1990s renewal of the center-left under Blair, Clinton and Giddens that accepts globalized markets and fiscal discipline, replaces welfare with work activation, is tough on crime and backs liberal interventions.
Militant democracy doctrine, authorizing a democratic state to restrict the enemies of democracy itself by banning anti-system parties, monitoring extremists and maintaining conscription and reinforced security to defend the constitutional order.
Geopolitical doctrine of the alliance between the US, Canada and Europe around NATO and the EU, which backs the alliance's eastward expansion and the use of Western military power to spread liberal democracy and free markets against Russia and China.
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Strasserist SocialismThird Position40%
A Brazilian statesman, Temer assumed Brazil's presidency after Dilma's impeachment, conducting a liberal agenda of economic reforms and fiscal adjustment with the support of the political center and the business community.
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A former Serbian province, Kosovo declared independence in 2008, recognized by about half of the UN but not by Serbia, Russia and China. An Albanian-majority secular parliamentary republic with a Serb minority, NATO troops and a remittance economy.
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Piedmontese state led by the House of Savoy that enacted the Albertine Statute, modernized its infrastructure and diplomacy, and spearheaded Italian unification.
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