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A city-state governed by the Holy See, the Vatican combines religious sovereignty, an absolute elective monarchy, and clerical administration, functioning as the institutional center of the Catholic Church and a global diplomatic actor.
Political axes
Leans further toward religious than 92% of the 185 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Religion is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Control, it sits close to the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 243 ideologies
Social doctrine of the Catholic Church, combining traditionalist morality and defense of life with concern for social justice, subsidiarity and worker dignity, under the hierarchical authority of the papacy and canon law.
Christian vision that places the universal Church above nations, races and borders, in the line of Paul of Tarsus and Augustine, joining intense faith, traditional morals and spiritual authority with brotherhood among all peoples.
Theocracy led by clerical authority without popular sovereignty, imposing a progressive morality from above as divine commandment: gender equality, sexual liberation, sacred ecology and a break with inherited custom, treated as superstition to be reformed.
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Libertarian MilitarismLibertarian39%
Bishop and theologian of Roman North Africa, Augustine formulated the doctrines of original sin and grace, wrote the Confessions and The City of God, and defended imperial coercion against Donatist heretics.
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Recognized by the UN as an observer state, Palestine is governed by the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority, with territory split between the occupied West Bank and a Gaza Strip devastated by war, an aid-dependent economy, and elections suspended for two decades.
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A Nile Valley civilization ruled by pharaonic dynasties through periods of unity and fragmentation. Sacred kingship, temples, and agricultural administration structured society; practices and institutions varied over three millennia.
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