An island presidential republic, the Maldives makes Sunni Islam the state religion and a condition of citizenship, lives on luxury tourism and fishing and depends on India and China, with high debt, climate threat and political disputes.
Political axes
Leans further toward religious than 92% of the 293 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Religion is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Structure, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 263 ideologies
Conservative tradition that accepts social reforms and protection for the poorest to preserve national cohesion, seeing elites as responsible for the people's welfare and for harmony between classes.
Current reconciling Islam with electoral democracy through conservative religious parties that run in elections and support a market economy and Muslim values in public life, like Turkey's early AKP and Tunisia's Ennahda.
Political movement advocating a state governed by sharia and Islamic identity, born with Hassan al-Banna's and Sayyid Qutb's Muslim Brotherhood, combining mass activism, religious social welfare and rejection of Western secularism.
The most distant ideology
Techno-SocialismRadical Left38%
Grand Mufti of Egypt and father of Islamic modernism, Abduh argued for reinterpreting Islam through reason (ijtihad), reformed teaching at Al-Azhar and the religious courts, and opposed both clerical stagnation and British rule.
Closest, by dimension
Other compatible profiles
The most distant
A federal parliamentary republic since 2003, Iraq shares power among Shias, Sunnis and Kurds through informal quotas, with an autonomous Kurdistan, state-linked armed militias and an economy dependent on state oil.
Also similar, by dimension
The most different
A city-state of Ancient Greece, Athens was the cradle of direct democracy, with citizens deciding the polis's course in assembly, although participation excluded women, foreigners, and slaves from political life.
Also similar, by dimension
The most different