Under President Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syria is in a transition begun after Assad’s fall, with a 2025 provisional constitution, reconstruction, and challenges of unity, security, and minority rights.
Political axes
Leans further toward free market than 77% of the 286 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Control is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 263 ideologies
Synthesis of the Asian Tigers: entrusts government to a merit-recruited technical elite insulated from the vote and guided by results rather than doctrine, combining free trade, open markets and low taxation with strict public order and state planning where it proves effective.
Current reconciling Islam with electoral democracy through conservative religious parties that run in elections and support a market economy and Muslim values in public life, like Turkey's early AKP and Tunisia's Ennahda.
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.
The most distant ideology
CommunalismAnarchist25%
King of Jordan since 1999, Abdullah II concentrates power over government, army and foreign policy, keeps peace with Israel and the Western alliance and pushes liberal economic reforms, while restricting the opposition and banning the Muslim Brotherhood in 2025.
Closest, by dimension
Other compatible profiles
The most distant
A West African presidential republic, Ivory Coast is led by Alassane Ouattara, has a cocoa and coffee economy, emerged from the civil wars of 2002 and 2011, lives with a Muslim north and Christian south divide and keeps close ties with France.
Also similar, by dimension
The most different
A Sunni caliphate with its capital in Baghdad, the Abbasids ruled from the Maghreb to Central Asia under a caliph with religious and political authority, with a Persian-style bureaucracy, long-distance trade, and the House of Wisdom in the Islamic Golden Age.
Also similar, by dimension
The most different