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Nordic dual monarchy centered in Copenhagen, characterized by an absolutist Lutheran state church, mercantilist maritime trade, and Baltic strait tolls.
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Leans further toward autocracy than 99% of the 266 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Power, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
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Defense of monarchy with unlimited power concentrated in the sovereign, legitimized by tradition or divine right, without a constitution or parliament to restrict the king's authority over state and society.
Current that preserves order, tradition, and hierarchy through a strong state, restricting freedoms and political participation in the name of social stability, morality, religion, and established authority.
Project that seeks to organize state and society according to the strict interpretation of a religious doctrine, subordinating laws, customs, and politics to sacred precepts and rejecting modern secularism.
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Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian25%
Last German emperor and king of Prussia (1888–1918), Wilhelm II dismissed Bismarck, pursued Weltpolitik with the High Seas Fleet, militarism and colonial expansion, led Germany into the First World War and abdicated in 1918, going into exile in the Netherlands.
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A post-Soviet presidential republic, Belarus is ruled by an authoritarian, personalist regime, with strong state control of the economy, repression of the opposition, and a close political alliance with Russia.
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A Lutheran Baltic power in the Thirty Years' War and the wars of Charles X and Charles XII, the Swedish Empire rested on a fiscal-military state, a monarchy with four estates and the Lutheran Church, until Poltava and Nystad.
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