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Ruled by the Ba'ath Party from 1968 to 2003, Iraq combined Arab nationalism, state oil and one-party rule. Under Saddam Hussein, the regime intensified repression, fought wars against Iran and Kuwait, and faced international sanctions.
Political axes
Leans further toward nationalist than 99% of the 286 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Intervention is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Religion, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 263 ideologies
Ultranationalist doctrine of national rebirth that rejects liberalism and Marxism, exalts the totalitarian state and the leadership of a single chief, sees action and violence as a means of regeneration, and treats the nation as a secular religion, with variants beyond the Italian regime that gave it its name.
Nationalist and syndicalist current that rejects liberalism and Marxism, advocating national unity, corporatist organization of labor, authoritarian social justice, and popular mobilization around the state.
Getúlio Vargas's Estado Novo doctrine joining economic nationalism, a centralized state, state-tied unions, labor law and state firms such as Petrobras, against the regional oligarchies and liberalism.
The most distant ideology
Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian23%
The creator of fascism, Mussolini ruled Italy as a totalitarian dictatorship built on a leader cult and a corporatist state. An atheist and anticlerical in his youth, he made the Church a political ally through the 1929 Lateran Pacts, more from expediency than faith.
Closest, by dimension
Other compatible profiles
The most distant
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.
Also similar, by dimension
The most different
Under Nasser, Egypt was a nationalist, developmentalist republic that nationalized strategic sectors, led pan-Arabism, and united Arab socialism, agrarian reform, and strong leadership in the Middle East.
Also similar, by dimension
The most different