A Muslim-majority Central Asian republic, Uzbekistan is ruled as a secular authoritarian regime by President Mirziyoyev, with gradual economic opening after Karimov, heavy surveillance and an economy of cotton, gold and gas.
Political topics
Leans further toward irreligious than 91% of the 325 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Religion is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Economy, it sits close to the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 263 ideologies
21st-century doctrine of the CPC associated with Xi Jinping. It combines centralized Party leadership and socialist modernization, advocating national rejuvenation, predominant public ownership, and a socialist market with private enterprise and technological innovation.
Doctrine of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk that founded modern Turkey on six arrows: republicanism, nationalism, populism, statism, laicism and reformism, imposing Westernization and state control of religion from above.
An Arab current of state socialism combining pan-Arab nationalism, a vanguard party, planning, land reform and control of strategic sectors, advocating Arab unity, secularism and independence from imperialism.
The most distant ideology
Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian35%
Chinese Communist Party general secretary from 1989 to 2002, Jiang preserved the party monopoly after Tiananmen, suppressed Falun Gong and promoted the Three Represents, WTO accession and reform of state-owned enterprises.
Closest, by dimension
Other compatible profiles
The most distant
Tajikistan has been ruled by Emomali Rahmon since 1992, with power gradually passed to his son, a banned opposition, repression of Islamists and the hijab, a remittance and aluminum economy and reliance on Russia and China.
Also similar, by dimension
The most different
A republic founded by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on the ruins of the Ottoman Empire, Kemalist Turkey abolished the caliphate and imposed laicism, the Latin alphabet, women's rights, and economic statism under the single-party CHP.
Also similar, by dimension
The most different