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A Lutheran Baltic power in the Thirty Years' War and the wars of Charles X and Charles XII, the Swedish Empire rested on a fiscal-military state, a monarchy with four estates and the Lutheran Church, until Poltava and Nystad.
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Leans further toward nationalist than 98% of the 204 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Intervention is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
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Current that preserves order, tradition, and hierarchy through a strong state, restricting freedoms and political participation in the name of social stability, morality, religion, and established authority.
Project that seeks to organize state and society according to the strict interpretation of a religious doctrine, subordinating laws, customs, and politics to sacred precepts and rejecting modern secularism.
Defense of monarchy with unlimited power concentrated in the sovereign, legitimized by tradition or divine right, without a constitution or parliament to restrict the king's authority over state and society.
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GeoanarchismAnarchist25%
King of Sweden from 1611 to 1632, Gustavus Adolphus reformed the army with linear infantry and light artillery, made Sweden a Baltic power and entered the Thirty Years' War as a Lutheran champion, dying at Lützen.
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