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A Florentine diplomat and thinker, Machiavelli analyzed political power realistically, valuing virtù, one's own military force, reason of state, and republican institutions capable of preserving liberty and civic greatness.
Political axes
Niccolò Machiavelli leans further toward militarist than 83% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Diplomacy is where Niccolò Machiavelli stands furthest from the rest.
On Morality, Niccolò Machiavelli sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
The closest among the 243 ideologies
Doctrine combining free enterprise and competition in the domestic market with an external tariff wall, subsidies for infant industry, a national bank, public infrastructure and trade surplus as a source of national power.
Ideology that places the nation as the central value, defending its sovereignty, unity, and identity, and prioritizing the interests of the people and the nation-state over external influences and globalism.
Caesarist current that legitimises a charismatic leader by plebiscite above parties, combining personal authority, bureaucratic centralisation, military mobilisation and state-led modernising reforms.
The most distant ideology
GeoanarchismAnarchist29%
A German economist, List championed economic nationalism and the protection of infant industry, arguing that lagging countries need tariffs and a strong state to develop and catch up with rich nations.
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A single-party socialist state, China unites the absolute political control of the Communist Party with a state-directed market economy, becoming a global industrial, technological, and geopolitical power.
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A German kingdom with a strong military and administrative tradition, Prussia united monarchy, a disciplined bureaucracy, and a powerful army, leading German unification and embodying the cameralist state and enlightened despotism.
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