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Post-apartheid transition under Nelson Mandela: first multiracial elections, a government of national unity, the 1996 Constitution, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and moderately liberal economic policy.
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Leans further toward multiculturalism than 96% of the 314 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Immigration 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.
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Most compatible among the 274 ideologies
Branch that combines individual freedoms with strong state action to guarantee welfare, education, and healthcare, defending equal opportunity and social security within the market economy.
Liberal current that accepts an active role for the state in the economy and in guaranteeing rights, combining individual freedoms and markets with regulation and public policies aimed at the collective good and equality.
Centrist branch that prioritizes sustainability, gradual energy transition, environmental regulation, and technological prudence, seeking to reconcile climate protection, markets, and democratic institutions without anti-capitalist rupture.
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FeudalismFar-Right32%
An American philosopher, Rawls reformulated liberalism with the idea of justice as fairness, defending equal liberties and inequalities acceptable only if they benefit the least advantaged in society.
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A South American presidential republic, Chile combines stable democracy, an open market economy, and a strong social and progressive agenda, a legacy of redemocratization after Pinochet's military dictatorship.
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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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