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The largest constituent country of the United Kingdom, England is governed directly by Westminster with no parliament of its own, with an established Church of England, a public health service (NHS), a financial centre in London, a Brexit majority and a growing populist vote.
Political topics
Leans further toward progressive than 84% of the 325 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Morality is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Power, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 263 ideologies
Militant democracy doctrine, authorizing a democratic state to restrict the enemies of democracy itself by banning anti-system parties, monitoring extremists and maintaining conscription and reinforced security to defend the constitutional order.
1990s renewal of the center-left under Blair, Clinton and Giddens that accepts globalized markets and fiscal discipline, replaces welfare with work activation, is tough on crime and backs liberal interventions.
Geopolitical doctrine of the alliance between the US, Canada and Europe around NATO and the EU, which backs the alliance's eastward expansion and the use of Western military power to spread liberal democracy and free markets against Russia and China.
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Green AnarchismAnarchist43%
A Conservative and Brexit leader, prime minister from 2019 to 2022, Johnson took the UK out of the EU, armed Ukraine, raised taxes and public spending, opened non-EU immigration and fell after Partygate; he is now a Daily Mail columnist.
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An island presidential republic, Taiwan is a vibrant democracy and global technology hub, especially semiconductors, living under constant military threat from China, and is Asia's pioneer in progressive causes such as marriage equality.
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Germany's first democracy, the Weimar Republic united parliamentarism, proportional representation, and intense cultural life, but was undermined by economic crises and political instability that paved the way for Nazism.
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