Which country matches your politics?

Public to Private

Ownership

• Coded tier of how much of the economy the state owns.
• Secure private property and low expropriation risk.
• Few state limits on who may own and invest in firms.
• Little state ownership or direction of banks and credit.

Planned to Free

Markets

• Ease of starting, running and closing a business.
• Flexibility of hiring, hours and dismissal rules.
• Price stability and absence of price controls.
• Regulation that permits and promotes private enterprise.
• A large state sector sets prices and credit administratively.

Shared to Self-reliant

Welfare

• Total government spending as a share of the economy.
• Public social spending (OECD members only).
• Public spending on health care.
• Lower tax rates and tax take mean less redistribution.

Democratic to Strong leader

Authority

• Free elections, rights and limits on the executive.
• Courts that constrain the executive.

Liberty to Order

Security

• Civil liberties: expression, association, rule of law, personal autonomy.
• Press freedom.
• Whether the state keeps and uses the death penalty.
• How many people the state imprisons.

Local to Central

Structure

• Federal, regionalized or unitary constitution.
• Elected regional governments with real power.

Progressive to Traditional

Morality

• Legal recognition of same-sex couples (criminalization scores highest).
• Grounds on which abortion is legal.
• Legal equality of women and men.

Secular to Religious

Religion

• Official religion, state funding and religious law.
• Laws against blasphemy or insulting religion.

Embrace to Caution

Technology

• Research and development spending.
• Building, keeping, phasing out or banning nuclear power.
• Whether genetically modified crops may be grown.

Multicultural to National identity

Culture

• Share of residents born abroad (an outcome shaped by immigration policy).
• Citizenship for children born in the country.
• Years of residence before naturalization (no ordinary route scores highest).
• Whether new citizens may keep their old nationality.

Global to Protected

Trade

• Average applied tariff, trade-weighted.
• Average applied tariff, simple mean.
• Tariff and non-tariff barriers.
• Trade as a share of GDP (large economies trade less, so a low weight).

Cooperation to Strength

Foreign policy

• Military spending.
• Compulsory military service.
• Possessing or pursuing nuclear weapons.
• Accepting the International Criminal Court.
• Collective defense commitments versus going alone.