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Founded by the Habsburgs in 1804, the Austrian Empire was a multinational Central European monarchy until the Compromise of 1867. Under Francis I and Metternich, it combined centralized administration, Catholic primacy, and liberal repression.
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Leans further toward autocracy than 98% of the 325 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Representation is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Immigration, it sits close to the catalog median.
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Authoritarian nationalist movement that arose in 1930s Brazil, Christian and corporatist, with the motto God, Fatherland and Family, a mass aesthetic and opposition to liberalism and communism.
Christian theocratist doctrine that subordinates political power to religious authority, holding that divine law and the Church should govern the state and customs, from medieval and papal ultramontanism to modern reconstructionist projects.
Defense of monarchy with unlimited power concentrated in the sovereign, legitimized by tradition or divine right, without a constitution or parliament to restrict the king's authority over state and society.
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Techno-AnarchismAnarchist23%
The last Holy Roman Emperor and first Emperor of Austria, Francis I founded the Austrian Empire in 1804. Allied with Metternich, he suppressed liberal movements and supported the post-Napoleonic conservative order.
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