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A theocratic Islamic republic, Iran combines elected institutions with the supreme authority of the clerics, under the rule of the religious jurist, a state-controlled economy, and strong regional projection in the Middle East.
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This position is 40.7 points from the median of the 204 country and regime profiles in this collection.
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This position is 11.2 points from this collection’s median.
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Project that seeks to organize state and society according to the strict interpretation of a religious doctrine, subordinating laws, customs, and politics to sacred precepts and rejecting modern secularism.
Christian theocratist doctrine that subordinates political power to religious authority, holding that divine law and the Church should govern the state and customs, from medieval and papal ultramontanism to modern reconstructionist projects.
Authoritarian nationalist movement that emerged in 1930s Brazil, with a Christian and corporatist base, the motto God, Fatherland and Family, mass aesthetics, and frontal opposition to liberalism and communism.
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Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian29.3 / 100Scores below are similarity indices out of 100, calculated from catalog coordinates. They do not establish historical influence or endorsement. How the comparison works →
Leader of Brazilian Integralism, Plínio Salgado created an authoritarian nationalist movement of Christian inspiration, with the motto God, Fatherland and Family and mass aesthetics inspired by the European fascisms of the 1930s.
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A republic of the Russian Federation in the North Caucasus, Dagestan is multiethnic and Sunni Muslim-majority, with strong Sufi religiosity, local clans, dependence on subsidies from Moscow, repression of radical Islamism, and little real autonomy.
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The Spanish viceroyalty covering Mexico, Central America, today's US Southwest and the Philippines, governed by a viceroy and audiencias under royal patronage, with the Inquisition, a caste society, haciendas, silver mining and Crown-monopolized trade.
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