A Sufi Muslim-majority West African republic, Senegal is a stable secular democracy that since 2024, under Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Ousmane Sonko, has pursued left-wing sovereigntism: it removed French troops and criticizes the CFA franc.
Political topics
Leans further toward planning than 84% of the 325 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Free market is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Power, it sits close to the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 263 ideologies
Current grounding socialism in Islamic principles such as zakat, the ban on usury and Quranic social justice, combining anti-imperialism with a state-run economy, from Gaddafi's Third Universal Theory to Ali Shariati's thought.
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.
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.
The most distant ideology
Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian34%
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.
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A presidential republic under a dominant party, Tanzania has been governed by the CCM since independence, heir to Nyerere's ujamaa socialism, with a union of mainland and Zanzibar, gradual economic opening and growing repression of the opposition.
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Under Hugo Chávez, from 1999 to 2013, Venezuela lived '21st-century socialism', with a new constitution, oil-funded social programs, nationalizations, currency and price controls, deep polarization, confrontation with the United States and power concentrated in the president.
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