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Under Salazar, the Portuguese Estado Novo was a conservative, corporatist dictatorship that united Catholic nationalism, order, and political control without mass mobilization, holding the country and its colonies for decades.
Political topics
Leans further toward autocracy than 99% 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.
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Most compatible among the 263 ideologies
Stance that rejects modernity and seeks to restore the pre-revolutionary order, defending monarchy, religion, tradition, and hierarchy against Enlightenment rationalism, liberalism, and democracy.
Christian theocratist doctrine that subordinates political power to religious authority, holding that divine law and the Church should govern the state and customs, from medieval and papal ultramontanism to modern reconstructionist projects.
Authoritarian nationalist movement that arose in 1930s Brazil, Christian and corporatist, with the motto God, Fatherland and Family, a mass aesthetic and opposition to liberalism and communism.
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Techno-AnarchismAnarchist22%
Leader of the Portuguese Estado Novo, Salazar ran a conservative, corporatist dictatorship that united order, Catholic nationalism, and political control without mass mobilization, keeping the country isolated for decades.
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A parliamentary republic in Eastern Europe, Hungary is governed under so-called illiberal democracy, uniting nationalism, Christian conservatism, sovereignty vis-à-vis the European Union, and strong control of media and institutions.
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A dictatorship born of the Civil War, Franco's Spain was an authoritarian, Catholic, corporatist regime that united nationalism and political repression and lasted until the democratic transition after the dictator's death.
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