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King of Sweden from 1654 to 1660, Charles X Gustav invaded Poland and Denmark, crossed the frozen Belts in 1658 and imposed the Treaty of Roskilde, taking the empire to its greatest extent and beginning the reduction of noble lands.
Political topics
Charles X Gustav leans further toward autocracy than 92% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Representation is where Charles X Gustav stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, Charles X Gustav sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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Current that preserves order, tradition, and hierarchy through a strong state, restricting freedoms and political participation in the name of social stability, morality, religion, and established authority.
Nationalist and syndicalist current that rejects liberalism and Marxism, advocating national unity, corporatist organization of labor, authoritarian social justice, and popular mobilization around the state.
Defense of monarchy with unlimited power concentrated in the sovereign, legitimized by tradition or divine right, without a constitution or parliament to restrict the king's authority over state and society.
The most distant ideology
Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian25%
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A Lutheran Baltic power in the Thirty Years' War and the wars of Charles X and Charles XII, the Swedish Empire rested on a fiscal-military state, a monarchy with four estates and the Lutheran Church, until Poltava and Nystad.
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