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A state in western India and Narendra Modi's home, Gujarat has a vegetarian, Jain-influenced commercial culture, an industrial and export economy, the pro-business 'Gujarat model', alcohol prohibition and BJP dominance, and was a laboratory of Hindu nationalism.
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Leans further toward private than 96% of the 325 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Economy 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.
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Right-wing current that combines free markets, free trade, and limited government with strong national identity, cultural assimilation, traditional and religious values, and a robust military.
Right-wing current that unites free markets, traditional values, and an interventionist foreign policy, advocating the promotion of democracy and national interests through military force and global leadership.
Political tradition that values order, customs, family, and consolidated institutions, preferring gradual and prudent change over rupture, based on historical experience and skepticism toward utopias.
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CommunalismAnarchist27%
India's first deputy prime minister and home minister, Patel, the 'Iron Man', integrated more than 560 princely states into the new country by persuasion and force, built the Indian civil service and defended order, private property and a strong unitary state.
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The world's largest democracy, India is a federal parliamentary republic of 1.4 billion people, governed since 2014 by Narendra Modi and the BJP, with rising Hindu nationalism, a fast-growing economy and a foreign policy of strategic autonomy.
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An aristocratic republic of antiquity, Rome balanced consuls, Senate, and tribunes of the plebs in a mixed system of elective magistracies, expanding across the Mediterranean through citizen legions and a strong cult of civic virtue.
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