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Global Greens and Taliban
Measured distance across six axes
Opposite ends of the recorded space. No axis places them within three points of each other. They diverge by eight points or more on EC, CU, AU, ID, CH.
Axis by axis
| Axis | Global Greens | Islamic Emirate | Gap | Reading | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC · Economic organisation | −05 | +03 | 8 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| CU · Social and cultural order | −09 | +10 | 19 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| AU · Organisation of power | −06 | +10 | 16 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| SC · Scale of decision | 00 | +06 | 6 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| ID · Rule of membership | −08 | +09 | 17 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| CH · Method and tempo | −04 | +06 | 10 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
Each axis runs from −10 to +10; the distance is the straight-line separation across all six at once, out of a maximum of 49.0. How the scoring works →
The evidence behind the widest gaps
A distance figure is worth nothing unless the scores behind it can be checked. These are the artefacts supporting the axes that separate these two most.
Global Greens · EC −05
Coded −5: ecological regulation and public investment rather than public ownership.
- Programme textThe 2001 Charter commits to markets constrained by ecological limits rather than to their abolition.
Islamic Emirate · EC +03
Coded +3: no economic doctrine, a bazaar economy, and revenue from customs and taxation.
- Documented act or statuteCustoms collection and taxation of trade are the principal state revenue; the opium ban since 2022 removed a major rural income.
Global Greens · CU −09
Coded −9: respect for diversity is one of the six founding principles.
- Programme textThe Charter commits to gender equity, indigenous rights and cultural diversity as core rather than adjacent.
Islamic Emirate · CU +10
At the ceiling: the most restrictive gender policy of any government in the dataset.
- Documented act or statuteGirls barred from education beyond grade six since 2022 and from universities since December 2022.
- Documented act or statuteWomen barred from most employment, from parks and gyms, and required a male escort for long-distance travel.
What this comparison does not establish
Proximity means similarity of stated position. It carries no claim about competence, circumstance, scale of operation, or what either organisation actually did to the people under it. Two organisations can sit close together and produce entirely different histories, because those things are not on any axis and could not be.
Global Greens
2001– · Worldwide
Ecological wisdom, social justice, participatory democracy, non-violence, sustainability, respect for diversity.
Taliban
1994– · Afghanistan
Rule by a supreme religious leader applying a particular reading of Islamic law with no elected component at all.
Distance is not the whole answer. Two organisations can sit the same distance apart for entirely different reasons, and the reason is the content of any claim about them. Open the comparison in the atlas to weight the axes yourself.
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