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A de facto independent state between the fall of the Qing and the Chinese invasion, Tibet was a Buddhist theocracy ruled by the Dalai Lama, with monasteries and aristocracy owning the land, peasants bound to it and deliberate isolation from the modern world.
Political topics
Leans further toward autocracy than 88% of the 325 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Representation is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Morality, it sits close to the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 263 ideologies
Rule by a Buddhist monastic hierarchy, with reincarnated leaders and monasteries dominating politics and land, traditional order and moral precepts as law, as in the Tibet of the Dalai Lama before 1950.
Current that joins radical ecology, authoritarianism and organic nationalism, defending population control, environmental preservation imposed by the state and the subordination of individual liberties to the survival of the national community.
A medieval order based on personal bonds of vassalage between lord and vassals, with land granted as fiefs, a hereditary warrior nobility, serfs bound to the land, the Church as moral authority, and power fragmented among local lords.
The most distant ideology
Techno-AnarchismAnarchist27%
Head of theocratic Tibet, the 13th Dalai Lama expelled the Chinese and proclaimed independence in 1913, built an army, post and currency, backed down before the monasteries by closing the English school, and warned against communism in 1932.
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A small Himalayan kingdom, Bhutan combines a Buddhist constitutional monarchy, strong protection of traditional culture and nature, and Gross National Happiness as its compass of government, with cautious openness to the outside world.
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The Tokugawa shogunate pacified Japan after the Sengoku era with a feudal system of domains (bakuhan), a rigid four-class social hierarchy, official Neo-Confucianism, a ban on Christianity and external isolation (sakoku).
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