An Asian city-state, Singapore is a parliamentary republic dominated by a single party, combining open capitalism, efficient technocratic management, strict order, and limited political freedoms in the name of progress.
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Leans further toward autocracy than 65% of the 185 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation 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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Synthesis of the Asian Tigers: entrusts government to a merit-recruited technical elite insulated from the vote and guided by results rather than doctrine, combining free trade, open markets and low taxation with strict public order and state planning where it proves effective.
Current that combines a market economy, private property, trade openness, and technocracy with low democratic participation, holding that a strong, efficient state should preserve order, stability, and growth.
Model that combines a market economy and private property with a closed political regime, in which the state guarantees order, growth, and stability while restricting civil liberties and political competition.
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CommunalismAnarchist26%
Founder of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew transformed the city-state into a model of authoritarian capitalism, uniting open markets, technocratic meritocracy, strict order, and heavily restricted political freedoms.
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A presidential republic in Central America, El Salvador gained prominence for its tough security policy against gangs and its adoption of bitcoin, uniting strong popular support and the concentration of power in the executive.
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Under Alberto Fujimori, Peru combined a self-coup and the closing of Congress with neoliberal shock reforms, privatisations and trade liberalisation, alongside a dirty war against the Shining Path marked by massacres and forced sterilisations.
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