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Proclaimed after Napoleon III's fall in 1870, the French Third Republic was a durable parliamentary regime, with secularism in 1905, free public schooling, a colonial empire, the Dreyfus Affair, victory in the Great War and collapse before Germany in 1940.
Political topics
Leans further toward irreligious than 96% of the 325 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Religion is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Free market, 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
Conservative branch that defends order, tradition, and institutions without grounding them in religion, supporting cultural values and social stability with secular, historical, and pragmatic arguments.
Thoroughly secular conservatism that rejects faith and clergy while defending hierarchy, family, authority, nation and inherited customs as civilizational goods, treating traditional morality as a social necessity rather than a divine commandment.
Doctrine combining free enterprise and competition in the domestic market with an external tariff wall, subsidies for infant industry, a national bank, public infrastructure and trade surplus as a source of national power.
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Anarcho-PacifismAnarchist38%
Five-time Prime Minister of liberal Italy who governed through pragmatic transformism, expanded universal male suffrage, and introduced social reforms integrating moderate socialists.
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An Asian presidential republic, South Korea combines a vibrant democracy, an export-oriented market economy, and technological leadership, the result of rapid development under strong state impetus.
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Piedmontese state led by the House of Savoy that enacted the Albertine Statute, modernized its infrastructure and diplomacy, and spearheaded Italian unification.
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