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Bourbon monarch who reigned through revolutionary and Napoleonic upheavals, sustained by popular Catholic devotion and royalist counter-revolutionary resistance.
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Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies leans further toward autocracy than 100% of the 560 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation is where Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies stands furthest from the rest.
On Economy, Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies sits practically at the catalog median.
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A variant of fascism that fuses ultranationalism, a mass party and militias with the authority of a national Church, with clergy in power, as in Dollfuss's Austrofascism, Father Tiso's Slovakia, the Croatian Ustaše and Romania's Iron Guard.
Stance that rejects modernity and seeks to restore the pre-revolutionary order, defending monarchy, religion, tradition, and hierarchy against Enlightenment rationalism, liberalism, and democracy.
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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Egoist AnarchismAnarchist19%
Leader of the Portuguese Estado Novo, Salazar ran a conservative, corporatist dictatorship that united order, Catholic nationalism, and political control without mass mobilization, keeping the country isolated for decades.
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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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Bourbon realm of southern Italy with an agrarian base, popular Catholic piety, counter-revolutionary resistance, and royal centralism prior to unification.
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