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France's Sun King, Louis XIV personified monarchical absolutism by divine right, centralizing power, subjecting the nobility to the court of Versailles, and expanding the cultural and military prestige of the French kingdom.
Political axes
Louis XIV leans further toward autocracy than 98% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation is where Louis XIV stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, Louis XIV sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
The closest among the 243 ideologies
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.
Defense of monarchy with unlimited power concentrated in the sovereign, legitimized by tradition or divine right, without a constitution or parliament to restrict the king's authority over state and society.
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.
The most distant ideology
Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian25%
Manuel I reigned at the height of Portuguese maritime expansion, when Vasco da Gama reached India and Cabral reached Brazil, centralizing the spice trade through the Casa da India.
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A Eurasian presidential republic, Russia concentrates power in an authoritarian, nationalist regime, with an economy dependent on natural resources, a strong military apparatus, and a foreign policy of confrontation with the West.
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Dictatorship installed in 1964, combining political repression, censorship, and security agencies with state-led developmentalism, major infrastructure projects, market reserves, and conservative moralism during the Cold War.
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