A theocratic Islamic republic, Iran combines elected institutions with the supreme authority of the clerics, under the rule of the religious jurist, a state-controlled economy, and strong regional projection in the Middle East.
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 Structure, it sits close to the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 263 ideologies
Theory by Aleksandr Dugin that rejects liberalism, communism, and fascism and proposes a multipolar world founded on civilizations, tradition, and collective identity, opposing globalism and Western hegemony.
Project that seeks to organize state and society according to the strict interpretation of a religious doctrine, subordinating laws, customs, and politics to sacred precepts and rejecting modern secularism.
Current that preserves order, tradition, and hierarchy through a strong state, restricting freedoms and political participation in the name of social stability, morality, religion, and established authority.
The most distant ideology
Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian20%
A Turkish statesman, Erdoğan shifted Turkey toward Islamic, nationalist conservatism, combining presidential centralization, an assertive foreign policy, and the erosion of democratic checks.
Closest, by dimension
Other compatible profiles
The most distant
A republic of the Russian Federation in the North Caucasus, Dagestan is multiethnic and Sunni Muslim-majority, with strong Sufi religiosity, local clans, dependence on subsidies from Moscow, repression of radical Islamism, and little real autonomy.
Also similar, by dimension
The most different
A militarist city-state of Ancient Greece, Sparta organized its whole society around war, with a mixed regime of kings and council, rigid discipline, austerity, and dominance over a vast subjugated population.
Also similar, by dimension
The most different