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A federation of Gulf monarchies, the United Arab Emirates combines power concentrated in the royal families, a liberal economy diversified beyond oil, and strong bets on technology, tourism, and global finance.
Political topics
Leans further toward autocracy than 89% of the 325 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Representation is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Morality, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 263 ideologies
Current that rejects modern democracy and egalitarianism and proposes replacing them with hierarchical, efficient governments run like companies by a sovereign, combining traditionalism and technology.
Current advocating a monarch who actually governs, as constitutional head of the executive or absolute sovereign, over a federation of states or regions with broad self-government, as in the German Empire of 1871, the United Arab Emirates, and Malaysia.
Regime that introduces radical free-market policies under a military dictatorship, with privatizations, trade opening and Chicago School economists, restricting unions, parties and opponents in the name of order and anticommunism.
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CommunalismAnarchist22%
Ruler of Abu Dhabi and UAE President since 2022. Architect of the Emirates' economic and military rise, he drove the Abraham Accords with Israel, post-oil technological diversification and controlled modernization.
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A Persian Gulf monarchy ruled by the Sunni Al Khalifa dynasty over a Shia majority, Bahrain combines a liberalized financial hub, a parliament with limited powers, repression of the opposition since 2011, and alignment with Saudi Arabia and the US.
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India's classical golden age, the Gupta Empire (c. 320-550) ruled northern India as a Hindu monarchy with vassals, fostered science, mathematics, Sanskrit literature and art, revived Vedic rites and consolidated the caste system.
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