An island presidential republic, the Maldives makes Sunni Islam the state religion and a condition of citizenship, lives on luxury tourism and fishing and depends on India and China, with high debt, climate threat and political disputes.
Political axes
Leans further toward religious than 96% of the 256 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Religion 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 262 ideologies
Conservative tradition that accepts social reforms and protection for the poorest to preserve national cohesion, seeing elites as responsible for the people's welfare and for harmony between classes.
Current reconciling Islam with electoral democracy through conservative religious parties that run in elections and support a market economy and Muslim values in public life, like Turkey's early AKP and Tunisia's Ennahda.
Political movement advocating a state governed by sharia and Islamic identity, born with Hassan al-Banna's and Sayyid Qutb's Muslim Brotherhood, combining mass activism, religious social welfare and rejection of Western secularism.
The most distant ideology
Techno-SocialismRadical Left39%
Iraq's top Shia authority, Grand Ayatollah Sistani upholds the quietist tradition, rejects Tehran's rule of the jurist, demanded direct elections in 2004, calls for weapons only in the state's hands and rarely but decisively intervenes in politics.
Closest, by dimension
Other compatible profiles
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A Muslim-majority parliamentary republic with a secular constitution, Bangladesh is marked by rivalry between parties and the army, ousted Prime Minister Hasina in 2024 and exports mainly textiles, with large remittances.
Also similar, by dimension
The most different
A city-state of Ancient Greece, Athens was the cradle of direct democracy, with citizens deciding the polis's course in assembly, although participation excluded women, foreigners, and slaves from political life.
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