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Pinochet Regime and Taliban
Measured distance across six axes
The same broad family. They agree within three points on CU, AU, SC, CH. No axis separates them by eight points or more.
Axis by axis
| Axis | Pinochet Regime | Islamic Emirate | Gap | Reading | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC · Economic organisation | +09 | +03 | 6 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| CU · Social and cultural order | +08 | +10 | 2 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| AU · Organisation of power | +10 | +10 | 0 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| SC · Scale of decision | +07 | +06 | 1 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| ID · Rule of membership | +05 | +09 | 4 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| CH · Method and tempo | +04 | +06 | 2 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
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.
Pinochet Regime · EC +09
Among the deepest market liberalisations attempted anywhere, executed under a military government.
- Documented act or statutePensions were transferred to private individual accounts in 1981.
- Documented act or statuteState enterprises, health and schooling were privatised or voucherised through the late 1970s and 1980s.
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.
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.
Pinochet Regime
1973–1990 · Chile
Free-market restructuring imposed by a military junta after the violent overthrow of an elected government.
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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