A Baltic parliamentary republic, Latvia combines the EU, NATO and an open economy with defence of the Latvian language, citizenship withheld from part of the Russian-speaking minority, distrust of Russia and a Lutheran, Catholic and Orthodox society that is highly secular.
Political axes
Leans further toward democracy than 87% of the 199 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation 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.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 250 ideologies
The East Asian Tiger model (Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong): champions free markets, foreign trade and private enterprise as engines of growth, paired with an active technocratic state that plans infrastructure, education and strategic industrialization, stopping short of closed protectionism or hard authoritarian control.
Right-wing current that unites free markets, traditional values, and an interventionist foreign policy, advocating the promotion of democracy and national interests through military force and global leadership.
Geopolitical doctrine of the alliance between the US, Canada and Europe around NATO and the EU, which backs the alliance's eastward expansion and the use of Western military power to spread liberal democracy and free markets against Russia and China.
The most distant ideology
CommunalismAnarchist37%
Ukraine's president, Zelensky went from actor to statesman and became a symbol of national resistance to the Russian invasion, defending democracy, sovereignty, and his country's rapprochement with the West.
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Other compatible profiles
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A Baltic semi-presidential republic, Lithuania left the USSR in 1990 and belongs to the EU, the euro and NATO, with strong hostility to Russia, high military spending, support for Ukraine, an open economy and a Catholic-majority society that is secularizing.
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An aristocratic republic of antiquity, Rome balanced consuls, Senate, and tribunes of the plebs in a mixed system of elective magistracies, expanding across the Mediterranean through citizen legions and a strong cult of civic virtue.
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