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The city of Geneva under Calvin (1541–1564) organized itself as an urban Reformed theocracy, with the Consistory disciplining public morality and the Ordonnances Ecclésiastiques regulating all religious and civil life and exporting Puritanism.
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Leans further toward religious than 98% of the 185 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Religion is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Diplomacy, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
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Government ruled by the Torah and halakha, with rabbinical courts, judges or kings under religious authority, Judaism as the state religion and rejection of assimilation, inspired by the biblical kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
A current fusing ethnic identity and Theravada Buddhist faith, seeing the nation as guardian of the Dharma threatened by minorities, as in Sinhalese nationalism in Sri Lanka and the Ma Ba Tha and 969 monk movements in Myanmar.
Christian theocratist doctrine that subordinates political power to religious authority, holding that divine law and the Church should govern the state and customs, from medieval and papal ultramontanism to modern reconstructionist projects.
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Techno-CommunismAnarchist24%
The last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II ruled as an autocrat reluctant to cede power, led the country to defeat in World War I amid economic and social crisis, and was deposed and executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918 following the Russian Revolution.
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An Islamic emirate ruled by the Taliban since 2021, Afghanistan is governed by a clerical supreme leader who imposes a strict interpretation of sharia, bars women from education and work, and faces economic crisis and isolation.
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Heir of the Roman Empire in the East, Byzantium lasted a thousand years fusing Orthodox Christianity, imperial autocracy, and Justinianic law, with the emperor as head of the Church and Constantinople as a Christian capital defending Europe.
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