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Northeastern state with a semi-arid climate and strong popular religiosity, Ceará stands out for the educational management of Sobral, wind energy, the Pecém port and center-left politics, while facing criminal factions.
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Leans further toward multiculturalism than 95% of the 300 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Immigration 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.
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Most compatible among the 272 ideologies
Centrist current that applies Christian values to democratic politics, defending the social market economy, family, solidarity, and the common good as the foundation of free and pluralist institutions.
Model associated with Brazil's Workers' Party governments that seeks growth with social inclusion, combining rising minimum wages, popular credit, cash transfers and public banks without breaking with the market.
Conservatism that protects institutions, family and order without doctrinal rigidity: it allows gradual reform and concessions in order to conserve the essential, in the line of Burke and Disraeli, rather than restoring an idealized past.
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Pol Pot SocialismRadical Left38%
Four-time governor of São Paulo for the center-right PSDB, with concessions, PPPs and isolation of prison gang leaders, Alckmin moved to the PSB and is Lula's vice president and industry minister, backing reindustrialization and the Mercosur-EU deal and opposing abortion.
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Northeastern state and cradle of Afro-Brazilian culture, Bahia has strong religious syncretism, a left-leaning electorate, the Camaçari petrochemical hub and a tradition of oligarchies such as Carlism.
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The only long-lasting empire in the Americas, imperial Brazil was a parliamentary monarchy under Pedro I and Pedro II, marked by political stability, a slave-based agrarian economy, and strong state centralization.
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