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The first legendary emperor of Japan according to the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki, Jimmu, a descendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu, is said to have conquered Yamato by force of arms and founded the imperial line, a central myth of State Shinto and Japanese nationalism.
Political axes
Emperor Jimmu leans further toward autocracy than 97% of the 645 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation is where Emperor Jimmu stands furthest from the rest.
On Economy, Emperor Jimmu sits close to the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
The closest among the 273 ideologies
Roman imperial tradition that, from Julius Caesar through Augustus, Nero, Marcus Aurelius and Justinian, concentrates army, law and administration in the ruler while preserving institutions, popular provisioning and sovereignty over a diverse empire.
A current of René Guénon and Julius Evola that sees modernity as the decay of a universal spiritual tradition, defending sacred hierarchy, castes, initiatory order and the primacy of spirit over economics and mass politics.
Current that joins radical ecology, authoritarianism and organic nationalism, defending population control, environmental preservation imposed by the state and the subordination of individual liberties to the survival of the national community.
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Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian24%
An Italian philosopher, Evola was a traditionalist theorist of the radical right, defending hierarchy, spirituality, and the refusal of the modern world, becoming a reference of 20th-century reactionary and esoteric thought.
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An authoritarian developmental state under Paul Kagame since 2000, Rwanda rebuilt after the 1994 genocide, bans ethnic discourse, restricts the opposition, grows with a tech focus and, per the UN, backs the M23 in Congo.
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China's last imperial dynasty, founded by the Manchus, the Qing ruled through a Confucian examination bureaucracy, extended the empire to Tibet and Xinjiang, restricted foreign trade to Canton and declined with the Opium Wars and the Taiping Rebellion.
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