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Historical state · 1949–1990
East Germany
Placement: Authoritarian center-left
One-party socialist state with a planned economy, pervasive Stasi surveillance, and the Berlin Wall.
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In short
On the traditional scale, this state sits in the authoritarian center-left camp. The clearest positions are on economy: strongly towards “equality”; state: strongly towards “authority”; immigration: strongly towards “control”; religion: strongly towards “secularism”. On society it stays balanced. Among ideologies, the closest is marxism-leninism (86%).
Position on the 13 axes
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EconomyEqualityMarket
StateLibertyAuthority
SocietyProgressTradition
SovereigntyIntegrationSovereignty
ReligionSecularismReligion
EnvironmentEcologyGrowth
TechnologyCautionAcceleration
Foreign policyPacifismInterventionism
JusticeRehabilitationTough on crime
DemocracyDirect democracyTechnocracy
MethodReformRupture
DevolutionCentralismFederalism
ImmigrationOpennessControl
Closest ideologies
Marxism-LeninismThe Planner86%MaoismThe Red Guard80%Authoritarian technocracyThe Administrator79%Similar countries
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