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Crusader king of Jerusalem from 1174 to 1185, Baldwin IV ruled as a leper from childhood, defeated Saladin at Montgisard, defended the Latin kingdom by faith and sword and kept pragmatic truces with the Muslims.
Political axes
Baldwin IV leans further toward autocracy than 90% of the 749 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation is where Baldwin IV stands furthest from the rest.
On Immigration, Baldwin IV sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
The closest among the 276 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.
Project of a dynastic empire organized as a federation of nationalities, with regional autonomy, local parliaments and recognized languages, while retaining a hereditary crown, unified army and military assertion of imperial greatness.
Current advocating a monarch who actually governs, as constitutional head of the executive or absolute sovereign, over a federation of states or regions with broad self-government, as in the German Empire of 1871, the United Arab Emirates, and Malaysia.
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Anarcho-NaturismAnarchist30%
King of Castile from 1217 and León from 1230, he consolidated the union of the crowns and conquered Córdoba and Seville. He ruled as a medieval Catholic monarch and promoted legal and administrative organization in conquered territories.
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A bilingual presidential republic, Cameroon has been ruled by Paul Biya since 1982, with centralized power, a separatist war in the Anglophone regions, a Boko Haram threat in the north and an oil and cocoa economy.
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A dynastic union of Aragon, Catalonia, and other Mediterranean lands whose constituent realms kept their own laws and assemblies. The Crown expanded through trade and conquest; its institutions were gradually abolished after the War of the Spanish Succession.
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