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India's first great empire, the Maurya unified almost the whole subcontinent under Chandragupta, Bindusara and Ashoka, with centralized bureaucracy, espionage, a standing army and the Arthashastra, until Ashoka embraced Buddhism and nonviolence after Kalinga.
Political topics
Leans further toward autocracy than 83% 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
Caesarist current that legitimises a charismatic leader by plebiscite above parties, combining personal authority, bureaucratic centralisation, military mobilisation and state-led modernising reforms.
Model that organizes society into corporations of workers and employers integrated into the state, seeking harmony between classes and directed economic cooperation instead of conflict or free competition.
Roman imperial tradition that, from Julius Caesar through Augustus, Nero, Marcus Aurelius and Justinian, concentrates army, law and administration in the ruler while preserving institutions, popular provisioning and sovereignty over a diverse empire.
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Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian26%
Mughal emperor from 1556 to 1605, Akbar expanded the empire across most of northern India, centralized administration through the mansabdari system, abolished the jizya, adopted religious tolerance (sulh-i-kul) and created the syncretic faith Din-i Ilahi.
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A Himalayan region with a Muslim majority, disputed by India, Pakistan and China, Jammu and Kashmir lost its special autonomy in 2019 and became a union territory governed by New Delhi, with insurgency, a heavy military presence and tourism.
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Under Mohammad Reza Pahlavi after 1953, Iran combined authoritarian monarchy and political repression with industrialization, land reform, and women's rights in the White Revolution. Allied with the US, it funded development with oil until 1979.
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