A small Mediterranean principality, Monaco combines constitutional monarchy, low taxation, strong dependence on financial services and luxury tourism, maintaining a conservative social order and great economic openness.
Political axes
Leans further toward pacifist than 95% of the 185 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Diplomacy 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
Kant's political philosophy, grounding the state's legitimacy in the autonomy of reason and the rule of law, defending a moderate representative republicanism and a federation of free states as the path to perpetual peace.
Dynastic microstate model that trades political sovereignty for prosperity: a hereditary prince with real power, minimal taxation, secrecy and financial services as the revenue base, openness to foreign capital and residents, and no standing army.
Liberalism before mass democracy: it guarantees civil liberty, property, a free press and a lean state, but restricts the vote to educated property owners, fearing that unlimited popular sovereignty would destroy the very liberties it protects.
The most distant ideology
CommunalismAnarchist38%
Austrian economist, Schumpeter described the creative destruction driven by the innovating entrepreneur, reduced democracy to competition among elites for votes, and predicted capitalism would be destroyed by its own success.
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A Chinese special administrative region and the world's largest gambling center, Macau unites very low taxes, a hyper-open economy of casinos and tourism, a Portuguese Catholic heritage, and a political system controlled by Beijing, without full democracy.
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The only long-lasting empire in the Americas, imperial Brazil was a parliamentary monarchy under Pedro I and Pedro II, marked by political stability, a slave-based agrarian economy, and strong state centralization.
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