A constitutional monarchy in Southeast Asia, Thailand alternates civilian governments and strong military influence, with a revered monarchy, predominant Buddhism, and a market economy geared toward tourism and exports.
Political axes
Leans further toward autocracy than 58% 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.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 243 ideologies
Political tradition that values order, customs, family, and consolidated institutions, preferring gradual and prudent change over rupture, based on historical experience and skepticism toward utopias.
Nineteenth-century constitutional monarchy model in which the monarch exercises a fourth Moderating Power above the Executive, Legislative and Judiciary, arbitrating conflicts and guaranteeing stability over an agrarian economy.
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.
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CommunalismAnarchist26%
Colonial governor of New South Wales (1810–21), Macquarie replaced military rule with public works and town planning, granted land and office to freed convicts and founded schools for Aboriginal people, but ordered the Appin massacre against resisters.
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An archipelagic presidential republic, the Philippines combines a democracy dominated by political dynasties, a strong Catholic identity, and a market economy, with security and anti-crime agendas in the spotlight.
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A powerful medieval merchant republic, Venice was governed by a commercial oligarchy that dominated Mediterranean trade, uniting stable institutions, a strong navy, and immense economic power for centuries.
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