A parliamentary republic in Eastern Europe, Poland combines democracy, a strong Catholic and nationalist identity, and a growing market economy, with politics marked by tensions between conservatism and liberalism.
Political axes
Leans further toward democracy than 65% of the 286 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation 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
Right-wing current that unites free markets, traditional values, and an interventionist foreign policy, advocating the promotion of democracy and national interests through military force and global leadership.
Political tradition that values order, customs, family, and consolidated institutions, preferring gradual and prudent change over rupture, based on historical experience and skepticism toward utopias.
Current that unites traditional values, family, and religion with strong cultural nationalism, defending sovereignty, borders, and the people's identity within democracy, with clear distrust of globalism.
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Techno-CommunismAnarchist31%
President of Poland from 2015 to 2025, aligned with the Law and Justice party (PiS). He champions traditional Catholic family values, a sovereign strengthening of the Polish armed forces and a firm alliance with the United States and NATO.
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A Catholic parliamentary republic, Croatia belongs to the EU, the euro, Schengen and NATO, with a dominant Adriatic tourism sector, long-lasting HDZ governments, a contested memory of the war of independence, a Serb minority and a Church influential on family issues.
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An aristocratic republic of antiquity, Rome balanced consuls, Senate, and tribunes of the plebs in a mixed system of elective magistracies, expanding across the Mediterranean through citizen legions and a strong cult of civic virtue.
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