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A closed Central Asian dictatorship, Turkmenistan is ruled by the Berdimuhamedow family, with a personality cult, total press control, permanent neutrality, a natural gas economy and almost total dependence on China as buyer.
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Leans further toward protectionism than 95% of the 256 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Trade is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Diplomacy, it sits close to the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
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Most compatible among the 262 ideologies
Plato's political philosophy, entrusting the city's government to a philosophical elite formed by virtue and knowledge, with strong control over education, property and customs in the name of justice and social harmony.
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.
Getúlio Vargas's Estado Novo doctrine joining economic nationalism, a centralized state, state-tied unions, labor law and state firms such as Petrobras, against the regional oligarchies and liberalism.
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Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian32%
Founder of the British Union of Fascists, he advocated authoritarian government, corporatism and protectionism. He promoted antisemitism and, after the war, pan-European nationalism and racial segregation.
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Born from the war of independence against France, Algeria is an army-dominated republic with Islam as the state religion, a state-run economy dependent on oil and gas, a non-aligned foreign policy and repression of the Hirak movement.
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A republic founded by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on the ruins of the Ottoman Empire, Kemalist Turkey abolished the caliphate and imposed laicism, the Latin alphabet, women's rights, and economic statism under the single-party CHP.
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