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Emperor of the Byzantine Empire at its height, Justinian I codified Roman law in the Corpus Juris Civilis, reconquered Italy, North Africa, and southern Spain, ordered the construction of Hagia Sophia, and imposed Chalcedonian orthodoxy.
Political axes
Justinian I leans further toward autocracy than 95% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation is where Justinian I stands furthest from the rest.
On Economy, Justinian I sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
The closest among the 243 ideologies
Christian theocratist doctrine that subordinates political power to religious authority, holding that divine law and the Church should govern the state and customs, from medieval and papal ultramontanism to modern reconstructionist projects.
Authoritarian nationalist movement that emerged in 1930s Brazil, with a Christian and corporatist base, the motto God, Fatherland and Family, mass aesthetics, and frontal opposition to liberalism and communism.
A doctrine that hands the state to the Islamic clergy and makes sharia the supreme law, above popular sovereignty, as in Khomeini's guardianship of the jurist (velayat-e faqih) in Iran and the Taliban emirate in Afghanistan.
The most distant ideology
Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian23%
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Heir of the Roman Empire in the East, Byzantium lasted a thousand years fusing Orthodox Christianity, imperial autocracy, and Justinianic law, with the emperor as head of the Church and Constantinople as a Christian capital defending Europe.
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