Dutch Republic
Merchant confederal republic
Dutch Republic leans hardest toward Local, Free trade and Multicultural.
The 12 axes, with receipts
A loose union of seven sovereign provinces.
Republic governed by merchant regents.
Europe’s freest press, a refuge for Descartes and Spinoza.
A trading republic that stayed out of alliances when it could.
Navy and hired armies, not conscripts.
Took in Huguenots, Sephardic Jews and other refugees.
Invented the joint-stock company (the VOC).
Home of the first modern stock exchange.
Grew rich as Europe’s great carrier of trade.
A Reformed public church alongside broad toleration.
Tolerant by the standards of its age.
A centre of the scientific revolution.
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