An Asian parliamentary monarchy, Japan unites tradition and high technology, with an advanced market economy, an aging society, and stable conservative politics, maintaining constitutional pacifism and strong global economic weight.
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Leans further toward irreligious than 79% of the 286 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Religion is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Structure, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 263 ideologies
Militant democracy doctrine, authorizing a democratic state to restrict the enemies of democracy itself by banning anti-system parties, monitoring extremists and maintaining conscription and reinforced security to defend the constitutional order.
A current that sees the unitary, centralized state as the guarantor of individual liberty: uniform law, secularism and single citizenship dismantle the local, clerical and corporate privileges that would oppress the individual without a strong national power.
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.
The most distant ideology
CommunalismAnarchist39%
Leading figure of republican Gaullism and two-term French president, blending defense of the French social model and pragmatic privatization with assertive diplomatic independence in refusing the 2003 Iraq War.
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An Asian presidential republic, South Korea combines a vibrant democracy, an export-oriented market economy, and technological leadership, the result of rapid development under strong state impetus.
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The most different
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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