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A radical regime led by Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge imposed extreme agrarian communism, emptied the cities, and abolished money and property, causing one of the greatest genocides of the 20th century in Cambodia.
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Leans further toward irreligious than 99% of the 325 countries and regimes in the catalog.
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On Nationalism, it sits close to the catalog median.
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Radical agrarian communism of the Khmer Rouge that emptied cities, abolished money and markets, and pursued an egalitarian peasant society by force, causing one of the greatest genocides of the 20th century in Cambodia.
Revolutionary model that idealizes peasant life and collective rural production, rejecting cities, markets, and private property in favor of an equality imposed by state mobilization and communal discipline.
Regime that fuses fascism's authoritarian aesthetics and hierarchy, with a strong leader, order and national discipline, to a socialist economy of collectivization, nationalized enterprise and central planning of the means of production.
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Leader of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, Pol Pot imposed radical agrarian communism that emptied the cities and abolished property, causing one of the greatest genocides of the 20th century in the name of a peasant utopia.
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A totalitarian single-party state, North Korea maintains a planned economy, international isolation, and a cult of the Kim dynasty, uniting communism, nationalism, and the self-reliance doctrine known as Juche.
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