A parliamentary republic with an Orthodox majority, Bulgaria belongs to the EU and NATO, with a low flat tax, chronic political instability, oligarchs and corruption, historic ties to Russia, a nuclear plant, a Roma minority and conservative laws on gender.
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This position is 23.7 points from the median of the 204 country and regime profiles in this collection.
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This position is 0.8 points from this collection’s median.
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Most compatible among the 257 ideologies
Centrist branch that combines economic moderation and institutional respect with social conservatism, valuing family, religion, order, and gradual change without joining the authoritarian right or populist radicalism.
Nationalism based on shared language, traditions, and heritage rather than race, which values the people's cultural identity and the integration of those who adopt these values, defending the nation's cohesion.
Conservative tradition that accepts social reforms and protection for the poorest to preserve national cohesion, seeing elites as responsible for the people's welfare and for harmony between classes.
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Techno-CommunismAnarquismo50.9 / 100Scores below are similarity indices out of 100, calculated from catalog coordinates. They do not establish historical influence or endorsement. How the comparison works ↗
President of the United States (1913–1921), Wilson pursued progressive domestic reforms, led the country into World War I in the name of liberal democracy, and championed national self-determination and the creation of the League of Nations, despite maintaining segregationist policies at home.
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A parliamentary republic born of the peaceful split of Czechoslovakia in 1993, integrated into the European Union, NATO, and the euro, with an industrial economy centered on automotive manufacturing and politics marked by nationalism, Catholic traditionalism, and scepticism toward foreign military aid.
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Germany's first democracy, the Weimar Republic united parliamentarism, proportional representation, and intense cultural life, but was undermined by economic crises and political instability that paved the way for Nazism.
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