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Fifth Republic under De Gaulle: strong presidentialism, plebiscites, dirigiste planning, nuclear independence and exit from NATO command, the end of the Algerian war and the May 1968 crisis.
Political axes
Leans further toward protectionism than 86% of the 314 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Trade is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Morality, it sits close to the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 274 ideologies
Current that joins a state-run socialist economy and a strong party with patriotism, the traditional family, religion as national heritage and rejection of cultural progressivism, seeing identity politics as a liberal distraction from class struggle.
Ideology that places the nation as the central value, defending its sovereignty, unity, and identity, and prioritizing the interests of the people and the nation-state over external influences and globalism.
Doctrine of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk that founded modern Turkey on six arrows: republicanism, nationalism, populism, statism, laicism and reformism, imposing Westernization and state control of religion from above.
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Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian29%
Son of Chiang Kai-shek, trained in the Soviet Union, he headed the Kuomintang's political police, served as premier and president of Taiwan (1978–88), carried out the Ten Major Construction Projects and, late in life, lifted martial law and opened the democratic transition.
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Sahel country ruled by a military junta led by Ibrahim Traoré, which dissolved political parties in 2026, postponed elections, nationalized gold mines, left ECOWAS and formed the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), with a sovereigntist, Pan-Africanist rhetoric inherited from Sankara.
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Proclaimed in 1792 after the fall of the monarchy, the First French Republic executed Louis XVI, lived through the Jacobin Terror under the Committee of Public Safety, dechristianized the country, fought revolutionary wars and ended with Napoleon's Empire in 1804.
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