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North Korea on the 12 Axes test

This is how North Korea is governed today, placed on the twelve axes of the 12 Axes test. It is an editorial estimate of government policy, not a survey of the people who live there.

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North Korea on the 12 Axes testFederalDemocraticSecurityInternationalistMilitaristAssimilationistCollectivizePlannedProtectionistIrreligiousProgressiveAccelerationUnitaryAutocraticFreedomNationalistPacifistMulticulturalistPrivatizeLaissez-faireGlobalistReligiousTraditionalBioconservative

Twelve-axis profile

Government

FederalUnitary

Structure · Fully centralized

DemocraticAutocratic

Representation · Autocratic

SecurityFreedom

Power · Totalitarian

Diplomacy

InternationalistNationalist

Intervention · Ultranationalist

MilitaristPacifist

Military · Expansionist

AssimilationistMulticulturalist

Immigration · Nativist

Economy

CollectivizePrivatize

Economy · Communist

PlannedLaissez-faire

Control · Command economy

ProtectionistGlobalist

Trade · Autarkic

Society

IrreligiousReligious

Religion · Atheist

ProgressiveTraditional

Culture · Traditionalist

AccelerationBioconservative

Technology · Balanced

Nearest countries

  1. Cuba77% close
  2. Belarus75% close
  3. Venezuela72% close
  4. Russia71% close
  5. Uzbekistan70% close

Nearest historical figures

  1. Kim Il-sung1912–199497% close
  2. Pol Pot1925–199887% close
  3. Joseph Stalin1878–195384% close
  4. Saddam Hussein1937–200682% close
  5. Adolf Hitler1889–194579% close

Countries are placed by how they are governed today, and figures by what they argued for and did. The placements are editorial estimates, and the three matches are separate comparisons. Methodology