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Dynastic microstate model that trades political sovereignty for prosperity: a hereditary prince with real power, minimal taxation, secrecy and financial services as the revenue base, openness to foreign capital and residents, and no standing army.
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I want a hereditary principality without an army, of minimal taxes and banking secrecy, living off finance and foreign capital.
Political topics
Leans further toward free market than 93% of the 263 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Free market is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Power, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
A political theorist known as Mencius Moldbug, Yarvin formulated neoreaction, proposing to replace democracy with a state run like a company by a sovereign-executive, on the model of neocameralism.
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A small Mediterranean principality, Monaco combines constitutional monarchy, low taxation, strong dependence on financial services and luxury tourism, maintaining a conservative social order and great economic openness.
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A global financial center, Hong Kong is an autonomous region of strong free-market capitalism and technocratic management, whose broad autonomy has been increasingly restricted by mainland China's political control.
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Under Alberto Fujimori, Peru combined a self-coup and the closing of Congress with neoliberal shock reforms, privatisations and trade liberalisation, alongside a dirty war against the Shining Path marked by massacres and forced sterilisations.
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A doctrine of Curtis Yarvin that proposes running the state as a joint-stock company: shareholders, a sovereign CEO, citizens as customers who can leave, guaranteed private property and politics replaced by management.
Right-wing progressive branch that unites capitalism and the cult of technological progress with a socially progressive, pragmatic, and secular culture, entrusting society's direction to a technical elite rather than mass democracy.
A doctrine separating political authority from social control: it favours concentrated, unelected executive power insulated from popular vote, which in exchange guarantees civil liberty, privacy and minimal state interference in private life and morals.
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A world divided into independent city-states and microstates that compete like a market, with free secession, the right of exit and political experimentation, from the medieval free cities to Yarvin's "patchwork" and seasteading.
A neoreactionary current that rejects democracy in favor of microstates run like firms. It favors competition among jurisdictions, free markets, the right of exit, and technological innovation as principles of government.
Kant's political philosophy, grounding the state's legitimacy in the autonomy of reason and the rule of law, defending a moderate representative republicanism and a federation of free states as the path to perpetual peace.
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Georgist DistributismCenter38%