An island presidential republic in South Asia, Sri Lanka gives constitutional primacy to Buddhism, won the war against Tamil separatists in 2009, faced the 2022 debt crisis, and elected a left-wing coalition in 2024.
Political axes
Leans further toward democracy than 73% of the 286 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Trade, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 263 ideologies
Conservative tradition that accepts social reforms and protection for the poorest to preserve national cohesion, seeing elites as responsible for the people's welfare and for harmony between classes.
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.
Current that joins ethnic identity and Theravada Buddhist faith and sees the nation as guardian of the Dharma, wary of the influence of other communities, as in Sinhalese nationalism in Sri Lanka and monk movements such as Ma Ba Tha and 969 in Myanmar.
The most distant ideology
Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian37%
Prime Minister of Ceylon from 1956 to 1959, he converted to Buddhism, founded the Freedom Party, nationalized ports and buses, made Sinhala the official language, pursued non-alignment and was assassinated by a Buddhist monk.
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Other compatible profiles
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An island province of Indonesia, Bali is the only Hindu-majority one in a Muslim-majority country, with a religious culture that organizes life, temples and the calendar, a tourism economy and tension between tradition, migration and overdevelopment.
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The most different
A Hindu monarchy founded by Prithvi Narayan Shah in 1768, the Kingdom of Nepal resisted the East India Company, passed through hereditary Rana rule and absolute monarchy until 1990 and was abolished in 2008, at the end of the Maoist civil war.
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