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Brazil's most populous and wealthiest state, São Paulo is the country's industrial and financial engine, marked by strong economic liberalism, a cosmopolitan culture, and decisive weight in national politics.
Political topics
Leans further toward progressive than 88% of the 325 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Morality is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Representation, it sits close to the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 263 ideologies
German liberal school that defends the free market within firm rules guaranteed by the state, fighting monopolies and ensuring competition and stability, serving as the basis of the social market economy.
Political tradition that places individual freedom at the center, defending rights, tolerance, the rule of law, a market economy, and limits on power, with government subject to the consent of citizens.
Current that advocates free markets, deregulation, privatization, and fiscal discipline, reducing the state's economic role and trusting competition and monetary stability as engines of prosperity.
The most distant ideology
ReactionaryismFar-Right28%
Governor of Rio Grande do Sul, Leite privatised the state water and power utilities and reformed its pension system; the first Brazilian governor to come out as gay, he switched parties to run in 2026.
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An Atlantic state led by Abigail Spanberger and a Democratic majority. It keeps right-to-work, limits cities under the Dillon rule, regulates data centers above 25 MW, and votes on reproductive freedom in November 2026.
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A pioneering modern merchant republic, the United Provinces were a confederation governed by a commercial oligarchy, marked by religious tolerance, free trade, and immense naval and financial power at their height.
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