Switzerland
Federal direct democracy
Switzerland leans hardest toward Local, Democracy and Nationalist.
The 12 axes, with receipts
The world’s most decentralised federation: 26 cantons with their own taxes, laws and constitutions.
Direct democracy: citizens vote on national questions several times a year.
Assisted suicide, heroin-assisted treatment and legal cannabis pilot schemes.
Neutral, outside the EU, and only joined the UN in 2002.
Armed neutrality with a militia army based on universal male service.
Four national languages, but strict naturalisation and a minaret ban.
State railways next to very strong property rights; voters crushed a 2025 inheritance-tax initiative.
Highly market-friendly; voters rejected a national minimum wage in 2014.
Free trade in industry but heavy farm protection and a constitutional food-security article.
Cantonal churches are publicly recognised; the constitution opens "in the name of Almighty God".
Approved same-sex marriage (2021) and abortion (2002) by referendum.
Moratorium on GM crops; voted to phase out nuclear in 2017, now being reconsidered.
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