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Under Muammar Gaddafi (1969–2011), Libya nationalized oil and proclaimed the Jamahiriya's direct democracy. Power remained concentrated in Gaddafi, backed by revolutionary committees and repression of the opposition.
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Leans further toward public than 97% of the 325 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Economy is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Immigration, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 263 ideologies
Current that unites a socialist economy with traditional values, defending social protection and a strong state role alongside family, order, and customs, far from the cultural progressivism of liberal lefts.
Current that joins a state-run socialist economy and a strong party with patriotism, the traditional family, religion as national heritage and rejection of cultural progressivism, seeing identity politics as a liberal distraction from class struggle.
A doctrine that hands the state to the Islamic clergy and makes sharia the supreme law, above popular sovereignty, as in Khomeini's guardianship of the jurist (velayat-e faqih) in Iran and the Taliban emirate in Afghanistan.
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Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian20%
Egypt's president from 1956 to 1970, Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal and expanded state ownership and land reform. He championed pan-Arabism and non-alignment while concentrating power and repressing the opposition.
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Sahel country ruled by a military junta led by Ibrahim Traoré, which dissolved political parties in 2026, postponed elections, nationalized gold mines, left ECOWAS and formed the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), with a sovereigntist, Pan-Africanist rhetoric inherited from Sankara.
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Under Nasser, Egypt was a nationalist, developmentalist republic that nationalized strategic sectors, led pan-Arabism, and united Arab socialism, agrarian reform, and strong leadership in the Middle East.
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