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Byzantium's most successful general under Justinian I, he reconquered Vandal North Africa and Ostrogothic Italy, and crushed the Nika riots (532) with a massacre at the Hippodrome. Loyal to the emperor even under suspicion and humiliation, he ran a rigidly disciplined army.
Political axes
Belisarius leans further toward autocracy than 78% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation is where Belisarius stands furthest from the rest.
On Control, Belisarius sits practically at the catalog median.
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Ideology advocating the political unity of Muslims above national borders, around the ummah and the ideal of a caliphate, formulated by Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and adopted by Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II against European colonialism.
Model that organizes society into corporations of workers and employers integrated into the state, seeking harmony between classes and directed economic cooperation instead of conflict or free competition.
Caesarist current that legitimises a charismatic leader by plebiscite above parties, combining personal authority, bureaucratic centralisation, military mobilisation and state-led modernising reforms.
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Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian24%
Emperor of Japan from 1926 to 1989, Hirohito reigned during militarist expansion and World War II as a figure of divine authority within the imperial system, and after defeat renounced his divine status and presided as a symbolic constitutional monarch over the country's democratic reconstruction.
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A presidential republic between Europe and Asia, Turkey combines electoral democracy with strong concentration of power, nationalism, religious conservatism, and an assertive foreign policy in the Middle East and the Mediterranean.
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A vast empire of antiquity, Rome united military power, law, and centralized administration under the emperor, expanding across three continents and bequeathing language, laws, and institutions that shaped Western civilization.
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