An island presidential republic, the Maldives makes Sunni Islam the state religion and a condition of citizenship, lives on luxury tourism and fishing and depends on India and China, with high debt, climate threat and political disputes.
Political topics
Leans further toward religious than 93% of the 325 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Religion 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
Current that unites traditional values, family, and religion with strong cultural nationalism, defending sovereignty, borders, and the people's identity within democracy, with clear distrust of globalism.
Political movement advocating a state governed by sharia and Islamic identity, born with Hassan al-Banna's and Sayyid Qutb's Muslim Brotherhood, combining mass activism, religious social welfare and rejection of Western secularism.
Conservative tradition that accepts social reforms and protection for the poorest to preserve national cohesion, seeing elites as responsible for the people's welfare and for harmony between classes.
The most distant ideology
Techno-CommunismAnarchist34%
Iraq's top Shia authority, Grand Ayatollah Sistani upholds the quietist tradition, rejects Tehran's rule of the jurist, demanded direct elections in 2004, calls for weapons only in the state's hands and rarely but decisively intervenes in politics.
Closest, by dimension
Other compatible profiles
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A federal parliamentary republic since 2003, Iraq shares power among Shias, Sunnis and Kurds through informal quotas, with an autonomous Kurdistan, state-linked armed militias and an economy dependent on state oil.
Also similar, by dimension
The most different
A city-state of Ancient Greece, Athens was the cradle of direct democracy, with citizens deciding the polis's course in assembly, although participation excluded women, foreigners, and slaves from political life.
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