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A dictatorship born of the Civil War, Franco's Spain was an authoritarian, Catholic, corporatist regime that united nationalism and political repression and lasted until the democratic transition after the dictator's death.
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Leans further toward autocracy than 98% of the 185 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Intervention, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
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Most compatible among the 243 ideologies
Conception that defines the nation by common origin, language, and ancestry, advocating a state of the dominant ethnicity and the preservation of its identity, with a tendency to exclude minorities and immigrants from the national body.
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.
Defense of monarchy with unlimited power concentrated in the sovereign, legitimized by tradition or divine right, without a constitution or parliament to restrict the king's authority over state and society.
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Techno-AnarchismAnarchist24%
A Spanish general and dictator, Franco won the Civil War and ruled for decades over a nationalist, Catholic, authoritarian regime, repressing opponents and preserving a corporatist order until his death.
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A Southeast Asian country ruled by a military junta since the 2021 coup, Myanmar is in civil war against ethnic and pro-democracy militias, with official Buddhist nationalism and persecution of the Muslim Rohingya minority.
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Under Salazar, the Portuguese Estado Novo was a conservative, corporatist dictatorship that united Catholic nationalism, order, and political control without mass mobilization, holding the country and its colonies for decades.
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