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A totalitarian single-party state, North Korea maintains a planned economy, international isolation, and a cult of the Kim dynasty, uniting communism, nationalism, and the self-reliance doctrine known as Juche.
Political axes
Leans further toward protectionism than 97% of the 185 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Trade is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 243 ideologies
Regime that fuses fascism's authoritarian aesthetics and hierarchy, with a strong leader, order and national discipline, to a socialist economy of collectivization, nationalized enterprise and central planning of the means of production.
Soviet model consolidated by Stalin, marked by forced industrialization, agrarian collectivization, rigid central planning, a cult of the leader, and mass repression against real or suspected opponents of the regime.
North Korean doctrine formulated by Kim Il-sung that combines state socialism, national self-reliance, single-party rule, a cult of the leader, militarization, and rejection of external dependence, subordinating economy and society to the regime's sovereignty.
The most distant ideology
FederalismCenter28%
At the head of the Soviet Union, Stalin imposed forced industrialization, agrarian collectivization, and central planning, consolidating a single-party regime marked by purges, terror, and mass repression.
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Other compatible profiles
The most distant
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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A radical regime led by Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge imposed extreme agrarian communism, emptied the cities, and abolished money and property, causing one of the greatest genocides of the 20th century in Cambodia.
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