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Proclaimed after Napoleon III's fall in 1870, the French Third Republic was a durable parliamentary regime, with secularism in 1905, free public schooling, a colonial empire, the Dreyfus Affair, victory in the Great War and collapse before Germany in 1940.
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Leans further toward irreligious than 95% of the 284 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Religion is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Diplomacy, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 262 ideologies
Conservative branch that defends order, tradition, and institutions without grounding them in religion, supporting cultural values and social stability with secular, historical, and pragmatic arguments.
Thoroughly secular conservatism that rejects faith and clergy while defending hierarchy, family, authority, nation and inherited customs as civilizational goods, treating traditional morality as a social necessity rather than a divine commandment.
Doctrine combining free enterprise and competition in the domestic market with an external tariff wall, subsidies for infant industry, a national bank, public infrastructure and trade surplus as a source of national power.
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Anarcho-PacifismAnarchist34%
Five-time Prime Minister of liberal Italy who governed through pragmatic transformism, expanded universal male suffrage, and introduced social reforms integrating moderate socialists.
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An Asian presidential republic, South Korea combines a vibrant democracy, an export-oriented market economy, and technological leadership, the result of rapid development under strong state impetus.
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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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