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Under Bashar al-Assad (2000–2024), Syria was a centralized Ba'athist regime sustained by security forces, a clientelist state economy, and alliances with Russia and Iran during the civil war.
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Leans further toward autocracy than 88% of the 309 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Morality, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
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Most compatible among the 273 ideologies
Regime centered on the armed forces as the core of political power, governing by junta or military hierarchy, with centralization, discipline, a high value on order and expansionism, and civilian politics subordinate to military command.
21st-century doctrine of the CPC associated with Xi Jinping. It combines centralized Party leadership and socialist modernization, advocating national rejuvenation, predominant public ownership, and a socialist market with private enterprise and technological innovation.
Regime that fuses fascism's authoritarian aesthetics and hierarchy, with a strong leader, order and national discipline, to a socialist economy of collectivization, nationalized enterprise and central planning of the means of production.
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Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian25%
Syrian president from 2000 to 2024, Bashar al-Assad preserved his family’s Ba’athist regime through repression, a clientelist economy, and Russian-Iranian backing in the civil war; he was overthrown and lives in exile in Russia.
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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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Under the Kuomintang, Taiwan lived under martial law and the one-party rule of Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo, with land reform, export-led industrialization, state-owned firms and US support, the base of rapid growth.
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