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King of Qin who unified China in 221 BC and proclaimed himself first emperor, he ruled through Legalism with harsh laws, replaced feudalism with centralized commanderies, standardized script and coinage, burned books and began the Great Wall.
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Qin Shi Huang leans further toward autocracy than 100% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation is where Qin Shi Huang stands furthest from the rest.
On Morality, Qin Shi Huang sits close to the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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An ultranationalist doctrine of national rebirth that rejects liberalism and Marxism, exalts the totalitarian state, regenerative violence and the leader cult, and treats the nation as a secular religion, with variants beyond the Italian regime that named it.
German variant of fascism based on racism, antisemitism, and expansionism, which united totalitarianism, the cult of Hitler, and the idea of a superior race, culminating in World War II and the Holocaust.
Spanish authoritarian nationalism of Catholic and syndicalist inspiration, advocating a corporatist state, national unity, and social hierarchy, becoming the ideological pillar of Franco's regime in Spain.
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Progressive LibertarianismLibertarian25%
The creator of fascism, Mussolini ruled Italy as a totalitarian dictatorship built on a leader cult and a corporatist state. An atheist and anticlerical in his youth, he made the Church a political ally through the 1929 Lateran Pacts, more from expediency than faith.
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A Eurasian presidential republic, Russia concentrates power in an authoritarian, nationalist regime, with an economy dependent on natural resources, a strong military apparatus, and a foreign policy of confrontation with the West.
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Ruled by the Ba'ath Party from 1968 to 2003, Iraq combined Arab nationalism, state oil and one-party rule. Under Saddam Hussein, the regime intensified repression, fought wars against Iran and Kuwait, and faced international sanctions.
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