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A European federal confederation, Switzerland is known for its direct democracy, strong cantonal autonomy, historic neutrality, and a prosperous economy based on finance, precision industry, and institutional stability.
Political axes
Leans further toward federal than 93% of the 185 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Structure is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Immigration, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 243 ideologies
Doctrine that organizes the state through a constitutional division of power between a central government and autonomous regional units, such as cantons or states, with their own competencies, independent courts, and mutual checks against excessive concentration of power.
Political tradition that places individual freedom at the center, defending rights, tolerance, the rule of law, a market economy, and limits on power, with government subject to the consent of citizens.
Current that unites individual freedom, markets, and democracy with the ecological agenda, defending sustainability, rights, and innovation to reconcile economic prosperity with effective environmental protection.
The most distant ideology
Clerical FascismThird Position27%
An Austrian economist, Hayek championed the free market and spontaneous order, warning that central planning leads to serfdom and suppresses dispersed knowledge, becoming a reference of 20th-century liberalism.
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Other compatible profiles
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A tiny European principality, Liechtenstein is a prosperous constitutional monarchy, with strong local autonomy, a liberal economy based on finance and industry, and one of the highest income levels per capita in the world.
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A rare society without a central state, medieval Iceland was organized by local chieftains and an assembly, the Althing, settling disputes through laws and private agreements in a decentralized system close to anarchy.
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