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A federation of Gulf monarchies, the United Arab Emirates combines power concentrated in the royal families, a liberal economy diversified beyond oil, and strong bets on technology, tourism, and global finance.
Political axes
Leans further toward autocracy than 82% of the 204 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Immigration, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 253 ideologies
Current that rejects modern democracy and egalitarianism and proposes replacing them with hierarchical, efficient governments run like companies by a sovereign, combining traditionalism and technology.
Model that combines a market economy and private property with a closed political regime, in which the state guarantees order, growth, and stability while restricting civil liberties and political competition.
Regime that imposes radical free markets through a military dictatorship, with privatizations, trade opening and Chicago-trained economists, repressing unions, parties and opponents in the name of order and anticommunism.
The most distant ideology
CommunalismAnarchist22%
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A Persian Gulf monarchy ruled by the Sunni Al Khalifa dynasty over a Shia majority, Bahrain combines a liberalized financial hub, a parliament with limited powers, repression of the opposition since 2011, and alignment with Saudi Arabia and the US.
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