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Dutch-speaking region of Belgium, Flanders is the country's richest and most populous, with an export economy centered on the port of Antwerp, strong regional nationalism (N-VA, Vlaams Belang) and broad self-government in education and culture.
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Leans further toward progressive than 92% of the 303 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Morality is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Intervention, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
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Political tradition that places individual freedom at the center, defending rights, tolerance, the rule of law, a market economy, and limits on power, with government subject to the consent of citizens.
Liberalism that defends democracy, individual rights and a market economy, but tests each policy against evidence: it accepts regulation, a safety net and targeted intervention when they fix market failures, as in Clinton's Third Way.
German liberal school that defends the free market within firm rules guaranteed by the state, fighting monopolies and ensuring competition and stability, serving as the basis of the social market economy.
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ReactionaryismFar-Right37%
Dutch sociologist and politician, founder of the LPF assassinated in 2002. Openly gay, he combined secularism, LGBT rights, and euthanasia with fierce opposition to multiculturalism and Islamic immigration, free-market deregulation, direct democracy, and Euroscepticism.
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Southwestern state on the border with Mexico, Arizona combines a libertarian and conservative tradition, immigration and border security at the center of debate, a divided electorate, a semiconductor hub and rapid growth.
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A city-state of the Italian Renaissance, Florence united banking and commercial capitalism, factional disputes among guilds and families such as the Medici, and a patronage that revolutionized the arts, letters, and political thought.
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