Atlas / Organisations / Timor-Leste
Timor-Leste
Fretilin / CNRT · 2002– · Timor-Leste · Post-conflict Democratic · Held state power · coding confidence medium
Each axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →
Core principles
A state built after twenty-four years of occupation and a referendum, which has held every election since and transferred power repeatedly.
Economic model
A petroleum fund holding the great majority of national wealth; very high aid and oil dependence; subsistence agriculture.
Organisation of powers
Semi-presidential democracy with peaceful alternation, including between former resistance rivals.
Reading note
Ranks among the freest states in Southeast Asia on most indices, twenty-five years after an occupation that killed perhaps a quarter of the population.
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All six cells are sourced. A rationale explains what the score is measuring and each artefact is something a third party can check without taking anyone's word for it.
EC · Economic organisation · scored −03
Coded −3: a petroleum fund holding almost all national wealth.
- Documented act or statuteThe fund is drawn down under a statutory sustainable income rule.
CU · Social and cultural order · scored +03
Coded +3: a devoutly Catholic society with a secular constitution.
- Documented act or statuteAbortion remains criminalised; the constitution guarantees religious freedom.
AU · Organisation of power · scored −03
Coded −3: repeated peaceful transfers between former resistance rivals.
- Documented act or statutePresidential and parliamentary power has alternated several times since 2002.
SC · Scale of decision · scored +02
Coded +2: a small unitary state with municipal administration.
- Documented act or statuteMunicipalities were established in 2016 with limited competences.
ID · Rule of membership · scored +02
Coded +2: a national identity forged in occupation, with Portuguese and Tetum official.
- Documented act or statuteBoth are constitutional official languages.
CH · Method and tempo · scored −04
Coded −4: independence by UN-supervised referendum after armed resistance.
- Documented act or statuteThe 1999 referendum returned 78.5% for independence and was followed by militia violence.
Nearest organisations by measured distance
Straight-line separation across all six axes, out of a maximum of 49.0. Proximity means similarity of stated position, not endorsement and not resemblance in outcome.
- US People's Party3.7
- PASTEF4.8
- Chilean Polarisation5.1
- Komeito5.3
- Postwar Consensus6.2
- Iranian Reformists6.4
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