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A Sengoku-period daimyo, Nobunaga began the unification of Japan with massed arquebuses, deposed the Ashikaga shogunate, massacred the warrior monks of Enryaku-ji and the Ikko-ikki, abolished guilds and tolls, and tolerated Jesuit missionaries.
Political topics
Oda Nobunaga leans further toward autocracy than 98% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Representation is where Oda Nobunaga stands furthest from the rest.
On Economy, Oda Nobunaga sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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Enlightened absolutism: a sovereign monarch who rules by reason, "everything for the people, nothing by the people", with a bureaucracy of experts, education and reforms against the Church and the nobility, from Frederick II to Joseph II.
Current that combines a market economy, private property, trade openness, and technocracy with low democratic participation, holding that a strong, efficient state should preserve order, stability, and growth.
Model that entrusts the management of the state and the economy to experts and technological efficiency, combining markets, innovation, and technical decisions instead of political deliberation and traditional party competition.
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Anarcho-ConservatismLibertarian31%
Tsar of Russia from 1682 to 1725, Peter I forcibly modernized the Russian Empire, Europeanizing the nobility, creating a navy, and subordinating the Orthodox Church to the state.
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An authoritarian developmental state under Paul Kagame since 2000, Rwanda rebuilt after the 1994 genocide, bans ethnic discourse, restricts the opposition, grows with a tech focus and, per the UN, backs the M23 in Congo.
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Under Mohammad Reza Pahlavi after 1953, Iran combined authoritarian monarchy and political repression with industrialization, land reform, and women's rights in the White Revolution. Allied with the US, it funded development with oil until 1979.
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