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A dynastic federation of East Slavic principalities, with Kyiv as a political and commercial hub on routes between the Baltic and Constantinople. The court adopted Byzantine Christianity in 988; succession disputes and Mongol invasions dissolved its unity.
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Leans further toward autocracy than 70% of the 325 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Representation is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Power, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
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Project of a dynastic empire organized as a federation of nationalities, with regional autonomy, local parliaments and recognized languages, while retaining a hereditary crown, unified army and military assertion of imperial greatness.
Current advocating a monarch who actually governs, as constitutional head of the executive or absolute sovereign, over a federation of states or regions with broad self-government, as in the German Empire of 1871, the United Arab Emirates, and Malaysia.
Russian geopolitical current that sees Eurasia as a distinct civilization and proposes a Moscow-led continental bloc, with regional autonomy and shared strategic command, against Atlanticism and US hegemony.
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Techno-CommunismAnarchist30%
Byzantium's most successful general under Justinian I, he reconquered Vandal North Africa and Ostrogothic Italy, and crushed the Nika riots (532) with a massacre at the Hippodrome. Loyal to the emperor even under suspicion and humiliation, he ran a rigidly disciplined army.
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An ethnic federation in East Africa and a never-colonized state, Ethiopia is led by Abiy Ahmed and the Prosperity Party, emerging from the Tigray war, with ethnic tensions and an opening state economy, plus the Renaissance Dam.
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The first great universal empire in history, Achaemenid Persia governed dozens of peoples through autonomous satrapies, roads, and tribute, tolerating local languages, laws, and religions under the absolute authority of the King of Kings.
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