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A Sengoku-period daimyo, Nobunaga began the unification of Japan with massed arquebuses, deposed the Ashikaga shogunate, massacred the warrior monks of Enryaku-ji and the Ikko-ikki, abolished guilds and tolls, and tolerated Jesuit missionaries.
Political axes
Oda Nobunaga leans further toward autocracy than 98% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation is where Oda Nobunaga stands furthest from the rest.
On Immigration, Oda Nobunaga sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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Enlightened absolutism: a sovereign monarch who rules by reason, "everything for the people, nothing by the people", with a bureaucracy of experts, education and reforms against the Church and the nobility, from Frederick II to Joseph II.
Current that unites monarchy with technology and efficient management, proposing a sovereign who governs like an executive, supported by data and innovation, to give the state stability and long-term direction.
Current that combines a market economy, private property, trade openness, and technocracy with low democratic participation, holding that a strong, efficient state should preserve order, stability, and growth.
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Anarcho-ConservatismLibertarian33%
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A single-party socialist state, China unites the absolute political control of the Communist Party with a state-directed market economy, becoming a global industrial, technological, and geopolitical power.
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Under Bashar al-Assad (2000–2024), Syria was a centralized Ba'athist regime sustained by security forces, a clientelist state economy, and alliances with Russia and Iran during the civil war.
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