An absolute sultanate on the Gulf, majority Ibadi, Oman concentrates power in the sultan, who also heads the government, and lives on oil and gas under diversification, with a neutral foreign policy of regional mediation.
Political axes
Leans further toward religious than 87% of the 293 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Religion is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Control, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 263 ideologies
Doctrine of rule by the best, which entrusts power to a minority qualified by virtue, education or birth, rejecting political equality and majority rule, which it sees as a risk to competence.
Model that organizes society into corporations of workers and employers integrated into the state, seeking harmony between classes and directed economic cooperation instead of conflict or free competition.
Ideology advocating the political unity of Muslims above national borders, around the ummah and the ideal of a caliphate, formulated by Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and adopted by Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II against European colonialism.
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Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian35%
Sultan of Oman from 1970 to 2020, Qaboos deposed his father, modernized the country with oil income, ruled as an absolute monarch and adopted a foreign policy of neutrality and mediation, grounded in the Ibadi tradition of tolerance.
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Hereditary Gulf emirate ruled by the Al Sabah family, Kuwait had a combative elected parliament and a relatively free press, but the emir suspended it in 2024 and began revoking citizenships en masse. State oil economy with broad welfare for citizens.
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A Nile Valley civilization ruled by pharaonic dynasties through periods of unity and fragmentation. Sacred kingship, temples, and agricultural administration structured society; practices and institutions varied over three millennia.
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