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Emirate of the United Arab Emirates ruled by the Al Maktoum family, Dubai is a city-state of trade, finance, tourism and free zones, with a majority of foreign residents without political rights and no local elections.
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Leans further toward federal than 79% of the 303 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Structure is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Diplomacy, it sits close to the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
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Most compatible among the 272 ideologies
Current advocating a monarch who actually governs, as constitutional head of the executive or absolute sovereign, over a federation of states or regions with broad self-government, as in the German Empire of 1871, the United Arab Emirates, and Malaysia.
Regime that introduces radical free-market policies under a military dictatorship, with privatizations, trade opening and Chicago School economists, restricting unions, parties and opponents in the name of order and anticommunism.
Current that rejects modern democracy and egalitarianism and proposes replacing them with hierarchical, efficient governments run like companies by a sovereign, combining traditionalism and technology.
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CommunalismAnarchist27%
Ruler of Abu Dhabi and UAE President since 2022. Architect of the Emirates' economic and military rise, he drove the Abraham Accords with Israel, post-oil technological diversification and controlled modernization.
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A federation of Gulf monarchies, the United Arab Emirates combines power concentrated in the royal families, a liberal economy diversified beyond oil, and strong bets on technology, tourism, and global finance.
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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.
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