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An industrial northeastern state and cradle of the Constitution, Pennsylvania is split between Democratic Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and a conservative interior, with shale gas, a union tradition, hunting culture and a state monopoly on wine and spirits.
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Leans further toward federal than 84% of the 286 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Structure is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Economy, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
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A republican current inspired by Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy. It defends civic liberty through laws, popular participation, and regulated conflict among social groups, allowing exceptional measures to preserve the republic.
Current that defends workers' interests within democracy, promoting labor rights, social security, strong unions, and income distribution through reforms and the welfare state.
Political project developed by Abdias Nascimento from the history of Brazil's quilombos. It advocates racial equality, Afro-Brazilian self-determination, participatory democracy, a cooperative economy and land held for collective use.
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Pol Pot SocialismRadical Left42%
A Florentine diplomat and thinker, Machiavelli analyzed political power realistically, valuing virtù, one's own military force, reason of state, and republican institutions capable of preserving liberty and civic greatness.
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The largest US state and one of the least densely populated, Alaska lives off oil, pays every resident an annual dividend from its Permanent Fund, levies no state income tax, and has a strong gun culture, Native corporations and distrust of the federal government.
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Under Franklin Roosevelt, the United States expanded federal power with Social Security, bank regulation, public works and stronger unions, while keeping capitalism, racial segregation in the South and mobilizing for the Second World War.
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