Iran under the Shah

Measures whether you prefer power distributed among states, cities, and local communities or a unitary national state with more uniform laws and command.

Compares trust in elections, opposition, and democratic institutions with a preference for strong leadership, technocracy, monarchy, or authoritarian regimes.

Evaluates the balance between order, surveillance, punishment, and state control versus privacy, individual freedom, and civil autonomy.

Looks at whether you value cultural assimilation, language, and national identity or multiculturalism, open migration, and plurality of customs.

Analyzes your position on armed forces, weapons, deterrence, and military intervention in contrast with negotiation, pacifism, and international organizations.

Measures the leaning between external non-interventionism and more assertive national sovereignty, geopolitical nationalism, and active defense of national interests.

Compares a preference for public ownership, state companies, and collective services with private property, privatization, and business leadership.

Evaluates state planning, regulation, and active economic policy against free markets, low interference, monetary autonomy, and competition.

Measures protectionism, productive sovereignty, and defense of national industry against globalism, free trade, and international economic integration.

Compares secularism, separation of religion and state, and criticism of religious privileges with the public influence of faith and religious values.

Evaluates cultural progressivism, civil rights, and social change in contrast with tradition, family, customs, and moral conservatism.

Measures enthusiasm for technology, AI, genetic engineering, and technical development against biological, environmental, and preservationist caution.