§ the political compass · reimagined

Politics isn’t a line. It’s a space.

The compass everyone knows is flat. Yours has three dimensions — and a name that’s actually yours.

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§ the third axis

Left vs. right was always missing something.

Economics. Power. And the one flat compasses ignore — culture. Three axes, nine bands each. That’s how two “liberals” turn out to be completely different people.

§ your name

Not “a liberal.” Precisely you.

Every position resolves to one of 729 named ideologies — a modifier and a base. Most people have never seen theirs.

Progressive Social Democrat
Rooted Libertarian
Reformist Capitalist
Reactionary Distributist
§ the company you keep

Meet the 600 minds who share your corner.

From Olof Palme to Ayn Rand to fictional characters — every ideology has its hall of real and imagined figures who think like you.

Huey Long
Thomas Paine
Edmund Burke
Joseph Stalin
Olof Palme
Othmar Spann
Adam Smith
J. Posadas
Mikhail Bakunin
Mario Draghi
Camilo Alonso Vega
Karl Marx
§ your drift

Watch your politics change colour over time.

You weren’t always here. Every quiz is a moment on your worldline — and the colour tells the story of how your ideology shifted.

Q1 ’24 · Centristnow · Prog. Social Democrat
§ the living map

Watch a whole country change its mind.

Opt in your region and join an anonymous, aggregate map. Scrub time and entire states recolour as the public mood drifts.

§ six ways in

One question set, or all of them.

Every quiz feeds the same compass. Take the placement, go deep on one axis, or check in with this month’s headlines.

Find your place.

Two minutes. Watch your colour form as you answer.

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