Hereditary Gulf emirate ruled by the Al Sabah family, Kuwait had a combative elected parliament and a relatively free press, but the emir suspended it in 2024 and began revoking citizenships en masse. State oil economy with broad welfare for citizens.
Political topics
Leans further toward autocracy than 75% of the 325 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Representation is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Economy, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 263 ideologies
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.
Current that mobilizes the people against political and cultural elites, combining nationalism, immigration restriction, traditional values, public religion, strong security, and anti-establishment economic pragmatism around personalist leaders.
Conception that defines the nation by shared origin, language and descent, defending a state for the majority ethnic group and the preservation of its identity, which usually implies membership criteria tied to ancestry.
The most distant ideology
Green AnarchismAnarchist28%
Qajar monarch who ruled Persia for nearly half a century, introducing telegraphs, postal services, and photography while navigating British and Russian colonial rivalries.
Closest, by dimension
Other compatible profiles
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An absolute sultanate on the Gulf, majority Ibadi, Oman concentrates power in the sultan, who also heads the government, and lives on oil and gas under diversification, with a neutral foreign policy of regional mediation.
Also similar, by dimension
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The first dynastic caliphate of Islam, based in Damascus, the Umayyad Caliphate ruled from 661 to 750, expanded from Spain to India, arabized administration and coinage and favored the Arab elite over converts until overthrown by the Abbasids.
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