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The direct rule of the British Crown over India from 1858 to 1947, the Raj governed through a viceroy and civil service, with allied princely states, railways, commodity exports, repression of revolts, famines and a final partition into India and Pakistan.
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Leans further toward autocracy than 84% of the 325 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Representation is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Religion, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
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Model that combines a market economy and private property with a closed political regime, in which the state guarantees order, growth, and stability while restricting civil liberties and political competition.
Regime that introduces radical free-market policies under a military dictatorship, with privatizations, trade opening and Chicago School economists, restricting unions, parties and opponents in the name of order and anticommunism.
Radical right movement born on the internet, combining identitarian nationalism, opposition to immigration and multiculturalism, criticism of globalism and provocative rhetoric. Part of its voices defend a nationalism based on race.
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CommunalismAnarchist21%
President of Peru (1990–2000), Fujimori defeated the Shining Path insurgency and curbed hyperinflation through neoliberal shock therapy, but shut down Congress in the 1992 self-coup and was convicted of crimes against humanity and corruption.
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A federation of Gulf monarchies, the United Arab Emirates combines power concentrated in the royal families, a liberal economy diversified beyond oil, and strong bets on technology, tourism, and global finance.
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Under Alberto Fujimori, Peru combined a self-coup and the closing of Congress with neoliberal shock reforms, privatisations and trade liberalisation, alongside a dirty war against the Shining Path marked by massacres and forced sterilisations.
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