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Byzantium's most successful general under Justinian I, he reconquered Vandal North Africa and Ostrogothic Italy, and crushed the Nika riots (532) with a massacre at the Hippodrome. Loyal to the emperor even under suspicion and humiliation, he ran a rigidly disciplined army.
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Belisarius leans further toward autocracy than 80% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Representation is where Belisarius stands furthest from the rest.
On Immigration, Belisarius sits close to the catalog median.
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Roman imperial tradition that, from Julius Caesar through Augustus, Nero, Marcus Aurelius and Justinian, concentrates army, law and administration in the ruler while preserving institutions, popular provisioning and sovereignty over a diverse empire.
Model that organizes society into corporations of workers and employers integrated into the state, seeking harmony between classes and directed economic cooperation instead of conflict or free competition.
Caesarist current that legitimises a charismatic leader by plebiscite above parties, combining personal authority, bureaucratic centralisation, military mobilisation and state-led modernising reforms.
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Techno-AnarchismAnarchist23%
The Duke of Braganza acclaimed king after the Restoration of 1640, John IV ended the Iberian Union and led Portugal in war against Spain to recover its independence. He founded the Braganza dynasty and sought diplomatic alliances to sustain the new kingdom.
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A bilingual presidential republic, Cameroon has been ruled by Paul Biya since 1982, with centralized power, a separatist war in the Anglophone regions, a Boko Haram threat in the north and an oil and cocoa economy.
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Established in 1542, the kingdom was ruled in personal union by the English and later British Crown, with administration in Dublin. The Catholic majority faced penal laws and political exclusion; legislative union with Great Britain ended the kingdom in 1800.
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