Netherlands
Parliamentary monarchy
Netherlands leans hardest toward Progressive, Democracy and Liberty.
The 12 axes, with receipts
Decentralised unitary state with strong municipalities and water boards.
Consensus-based parliamentary democracy.
Pioneer of tolerated cannabis sales and legal euthanasia.
EU founding member, though the hard right won the 2023 election.
NATO member; conscription suspended since 1997.
Mandatory civic-integration exams and recent asylum crackdowns; Frisian is official in Friesland.
Mixed: state rail, private utilities, inheritance tax up to 40%.
Market economy with regulated rents and a statutory minimum wage.
Historic trading nation, yet it restricts chip-machine exports and screens takeovers.
Secular society whose constitution guarantees equal funding for religious schools.
First country to legalise same-sex marriage (2001).
Plans new nuclear reactors and hosts ASML, the chip-machine monopoly.
Thinks most like
Portugal90%
Slovenia89%
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