A one-party communist republic, Laos has been ruled by the Lao People's Revolutionary Party since 1975, with a party-controlled market economy, heavy debt to China, Mekong hydropower dams and a tolerated Theravada Buddhism.
Political axes
Leans further toward autocracy than 73% of the 256 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Morality, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 262 ideologies
Model of the Communist Party of Vietnam uniting Ho Chi Minh Thought, anticolonial national liberation and the 1986 Đổi Mới: single-party rule, a socialist-oriented market economy, a dominant state sector and openness to global trade.
Model inspired by Park Chung-hee's regime, combining state-led industrialization, credit for private firms, and planning with anti-communist political repression.
Doctrine of rule by the best, which entrusts power to a minority qualified by virtue, education or birth, rejecting political equality and majority rule, which it sees as a risk to competence.
The most distant ideology
Anarcho-NaturismAnarchist34%
An ancient Chinese philosopher, Confucius created an ethic based on virtue, social harmony, and respect for hierarchies and traditions, shaping Chinese culture, morality, and politics for millennia.
Closest, by dimension
Other compatible profiles
The most distant
Tajikistan has been ruled by Emomali Rahmon since 1992, with power gradually passed to his son, a banned opposition, repression of Islamists and the hijab, a remittance and aluminum economy and reliance on Russia and China.
Also similar, by dimension
The most different
Under Vargas, Brazil experienced a nationalist, developmentalist regime that promoted state-directed industrialization, labor legislation, and the centralization of power, laying the foundations of Brazilian labourism.
Also similar, by dimension
The most different