A hereditary Gulf emirate ruled by the Al Sabah family, Kuwait had a combative elected parliament and a relatively free press, but the emir suspended it in 2024. State oil economy with broad welfare for citizens.
Political axes
Leans further toward religious than 89% of the 256 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Religion 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.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 262 ideologies
Democratic Party current born with Franklin Roosevelt that joins financial regulation, social security, public works and strong unions with civic patriotism, preserved capitalism and international leadership.
Model that organizes society into corporations of workers and employers integrated into the state, seeking harmony between classes and directed economic cooperation instead of conflict or free competition.
Ideology advocating the political unity of Muslims above national borders, around the ummah and the ideal of a caliphate, formulated by Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and adopted by Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II against European colonialism.
The most distant ideology
Anarcho-NaturismAnarchist30%
Sultan of Oman from 1970 to 2020, Qaboos deposed his father, modernized the country with oil income, ruled as an absolute monarch and adopted a foreign policy of neutrality and mediation, grounded in the Ibadi tradition of tolerance.
Closest, by dimension
Other compatible profiles
The most distant
An oil- and gas-rich absolute sultanate, Brunei is ruled by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah as head of state and government, with a sharia penal code since 2014, tax-free welfare and the official ideology of the Malay Islamic Monarchy.
Also similar, by dimension
The most different
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.
Also similar, by dimension
The most different