Spain
Parliamentary monarchy with powerful regions
Spain leans hardest toward Progressive, Democracy and Multicultural.
The 12 axes, with receipts
A "State of Autonomies" with foral regimes and powerful regions, held together by a constitution that declares the nation indivisible.
A stable parliamentary monarchy since 1978; national referendums are rare.
Euthanasia is legal and personal drug use only fined, but the 2015 public-security law curbs protest and some speech.
Consistently among the most pro-EU publics in Europe.
One of NATO’s lowest defence spenders; conscription ended in 2001.
Large immigrant population and a 2025 mass regularisation; Catalan, Basque and Galician are co-official.
Public rail and health care, private energy; inheritance tax ranges from heavy to near zero by region.
Rent caps in stressed housing areas (2023), big state recovery-fund investment, steep minimum-wage rises.
Open EU trader; the state bought a 10% stake in Telefónica to keep it out of foreign hands.
Non-confessional state with deep Catholic heritage and state-funded Catholic schools.
Same-sex marriage since 2005 and abortion on request; a strongly progressive social consensus.
Leads on renewables and plans to shut its nuclear plants by 2035.
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