An oil- and gas-rich absolute sultanate, Brunei is ruled by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah as head of state and government, with a sharia penal code since 2014, tax-free welfare and the official ideology of the Malay Islamic Monarchy.
Political topics
Leans further toward autocracy than 88% of the 325 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Representation is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Economy, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 263 ideologies
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.
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.
Getúlio Vargas's Estado Novo doctrine joining economic nationalism, a centralized state, state-tied unions, labor law and state firms such as Petrobras, against the regional oligarchies and liberalism.
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Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian30%
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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Hereditary Gulf emirate ruled by the Al Sabah family, Kuwait had a combative elected parliament and a relatively free press, but the emir suspended it in 2024 and began revoking citizenships en masse. State oil economy with broad welfare for citizens.
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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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