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A rare society without a central state, medieval Iceland was organized by local chieftains and an assembly, the Althing, settling disputes through laws and private agreements in a decentralized system close to anarchy.
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This position is 70.1 points from the median of the 204 country and regime profiles in this collection.
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Most compatible among the 257 ideologies
Current that rejects the state but preserves tradition, religion, and community values, defending a spontaneous social order based on customs, family, and natural authority instead of central political power.
Branch that combines radical free markets with traditional, conservative cultural values, defending economic freedom, property, and autonomous local communities against the state and progressivism.
Republican tradition that idealizes the small landowning farmer as the basis of civic virtue and liberty, advocating wide distribution of land, limited and decentralized government, and distrust of banks, public debt, industry and large cities.
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Stalinist SocialismRadical left34.5 / 100Scores below are similarity indices out of 100, calculated from catalog coordinates. They do not establish historical influence or endorsement. How the comparison works ↗
An American politician, Ron Paul popularized libertarianism in the United States, defending the minimal state, individual freedom, sound money, and a non-interventionist foreign policy against the establishment.
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A parliamentary republic in the Middle East, Lebanon divides power among religious communities in a confessional system, with pluralism, a strong service sector, and chronic political and economic instability.
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Medieval alliance of autonomous cantons formed from the 1291 Pact, the Old Swiss Confederacy operated without a strong central power, combining direct democracy in local assemblies (Landsgemeinde), independent peasant militias, and weak joint military/diplomatic coordination among the cantons.
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