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The largest constituent country of the United Kingdom, England is governed directly by Westminster with no parliament of its own, with an established Church of England, a public health service (NHS), a financial centre in London, a Brexit majority and a growing populist vote.
Political axes
Leans further toward progressive than 81% of the 185 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Morality is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Economy, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 248 ideologies
The Jewish national movement founded by Theodor Herzl in 1897, which sought a Jewish state in the Land of Israel as a response to antisemitism and led to the creation of Israel in 1948, uniting nation, the Hebrew language, and return to the ancestral land.
1990s renewal of the center-left under Blair, Clinton and Giddens that accepts globalized markets and fiscal discipline, replaces welfare with work activation, is tough on crime and backs liberal interventions.
Militant democracy doctrine, authorizing a democratic state to restrict the enemies of democracy itself by banning anti-system parties, monitoring extremists and maintaining conscription and reinforced security to defend the constitutional order.
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CommunalismAnarchist41%
A Conservative and Brexit leader, prime minister from 2019 to 2022, Johnson took the UK out of the EU, armed Ukraine, raised taxes and public spending, opened non-EU immigration and fell after Partygate; he is now a Daily Mail columnist.
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An island presidential republic, Taiwan is a vibrant democracy and global technology hub, especially semiconductors, living under constant military threat from China, and is Asia's pioneer in progressive causes such as marriage equality.
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Germany's first democracy, the Weimar Republic united parliamentarism, proportional representation, and intense cultural life, but was undermined by economic crises and political instability that paved the way for Nazism.
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