A bilingual presidential republic, Cameroon has been ruled by Paul Biya since 1982, with centralized power, a separatist war in the Anglophone regions, a Boko Haram threat in the north and an oil and cocoa economy.
Political axes
Leans further toward autocracy than 61% of the 256 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Diplomacy, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 262 ideologies
Nineteenth-century constitutional monarchy model in which the monarch exercises a fourth Moderating Power above the Executive, Legislative and Judiciary, arbitrating conflicts and guaranteeing stability over an agrarian economy.
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.
Social doctrine of the Catholic Church, combining traditionalist morality and defense of life with concern for social justice, subsidiarity and worker dignity, under the hierarchical authority of the papacy and canon law.
The most distant ideology
GeoanarchismAnarchist26%
A Dominican friar and the foremost systematizer of medieval scholasticism, Thomas Aquinas fused Aristotelian philosophy with Christian theology in the Summa Theologica, arguing for natural law as the basis of moral and political order, the authority of the Church and the Christian monarch, and hierarchy as the earthly reflection of divine order.
Closest, by dimension
Other compatible profiles
The most distant
Ruled by Zanu-PF since 1980, Zimbabwe passed from Mugabe's dictatorship to President Mnangagwa, with radical land reform, historic hyperinflation, Western sanctions, an informal dollarized economy, disputed elections and repression of the opposition.
Also similar, by dimension
The most different
Established in 1542, the kingdom was ruled in personal union by the English and later British Crown, with administration in Dublin. The Catholic majority faced penal laws and political exclusion; legislative union with Great Britain ended the kingdom in 1800.
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The most different