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I was wondering how other nations see leftists. So I made this.

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[b]Is your nation leftist:[/b]
[b]If applicable, what kind of leftist idea does the government follow (ie Stalinism, Socialism, Marxism, etc.):[/b]
[b]Are leftist thoughts legal in your nation:[/b]
[b]How are leftists treated in general:[/b]
[b]What percentage of your population support leftist ideas:[/b]

Here's mine
Is your nation leftist: Yes
If applicable, what kind of leftist idea does the government follow (ie Stalinism, Socialism, Marxism, etc.): Kholodvia is fairly Stalinist, depending on the leader.
Are leftist thoughts legal in your nation: Very
How are leftists treated in general: They are considered the "norm".
What percentage of your population support leftist ideas: ~93%

Is your nation leftist:Kinda
If applicable, what kind of leftist idea does the government follow (ie Stalinism, Socialism, Marxism, etc.):Straight-up Marxism.
Are leftist thoughts legal in your nation:They are encouraged
How are leftists treated in general:Like normal people
What percentage of your population support leftist ideas:49%

Is your nation leftist: Kinda
If applicable, what kind of leftist idea does the government follow (ie Stalinism, Socialism, Marxism, etc.): Between Socialism and Marxism
Are leftist thoughts legal in your nation: Yes
How are leftists treated in general: Normal
What percentage of your population support leftist ideas: 45%

Is your nation leftist: No
If applicable, what kind of leftist idea does the government follow (ie Stalinism, Socialism, Marxism, etc.): N/A
Are leftist thoughts legal in your nation: No, distribution of leftist propaganda is punishable by brainwashing, a technique where we cut the leftists head open and pour a mixture of bleach, ammonia, and isopropyl alcohol to cure said leftists of his or her violent and unnatural opinions.
How are leftists treated in general: Any and all anti-government opinions are banned within Ralkovia as being anti-patriotic, unnatural, and filthy ideas that will lead to large scale societal collapse.
What percentage of your population support leftist ideas: Because of Ralkovian policy there is no accurate number, but it is believed that some 30% of the population harbors at least some leftist ideals.

Is your nation leftist: Socially it is a bit left of centre. Economically though ...
If applicable, what kind of leftist idea does the government follow (ie Stalinism, Socialism, Marxism, etc.): None, "free market" to sexy to give up.
Are leftist thoughts legal in your nation: Yes, we do not banish thought crimes or advocacy for certain political beliefs. The problem is that you have to convinve people addicted to their iFruit phones and Vapid cars that capitalism is bad...
How are leftists treated in general: Not any differently, supported by some, mocked by others.
What percentage of your population support leftist ideas: Um....I guess we can go by the fact 72.9% of people voted democrat in the last election, but the Democrat party isn't really that left...

Is your nation leftist: At the moment, yes.
If applicable, what kind of leftist idea does the government follow (ie Stalinism, Socialism, Marxism, etc.): Social liberals currently control the government, though they will likely have to align their policies more with their social democratic allies in the next parliamentary session.
Are leftist thoughts legal in your nation: Yes
How are leftists treated in general: Same as others
What percentage of your population support leftist ideas: ~60% this election cycle.

Is your nation leftist: At the moment, yes.
If applicable, what kind of leftist idea does the government follow (ie Stalinism, Socialism, Marxism, etc.): Somewhere inbetween Council Anarchy(better known as Direct Democracy) we may call ourselves a republic but the only government we have is a council taht controls the military and enforces law
Are leftist thoughts legal in your nation: Yes
How are leftists treated in general: Same as others
What percentage of your population support leftist ideas: 87%

Is your nation leftist: Centrist-Left to be exact.
If applicable, what kind of leftist idea does the government follow (ie Stalinism, Socialism, Marxism, etc.): Social Democracy, except a bit more centrist.
Are leftist thoughts legal in your nation: Yes.
How are leftists treated in general: Same as others.
What percentage of your population support leftist ideas: 65%

Is your nation leftist: Yes
If applicable, what kind of leftist idea does the government follow (ie Stalinism, Socialism, Marxism, etc.): Socialism
Are leftist thoughts legal in your nation: Yes
How are leftists treated in general: Leftists are respected strongly in Siberia. Liberal Socialism is strong throughout Siberia and is really popular. Right Wingers only make up very small percentage of the population.
What percentage of your population support leftist ideas: 86%

Is your nation leftist: Depends on how you define NARO's and by extension, AUA's policies. They do lean to the left (civic nationalism, social democratic policies, minority rights and endorsement of multiculturalism)
If applicable, what kind of leftist idea does the government follow (ie Stalinism, Socialism, Marxism, etc.): If social democracy counts as leftist then yeah.
Are leftist thoughts legal in your nation: Yes?
How are leftists treated in general: Idealistic and childish if they are left-left, so they are treated with slight mockery. If they are a NARO or YLA leftist they are generally seen as pragmatic, snobbish, champange socialists and treated with respect and satire.
What percentage of your population support leftist ideas: Not known, however, leftist political parties make up a fair portion of the AUA coalition.

Is your nation leftist: Yes
If applicable, what kind of leftist idea does the government follow (ie Stalinism, Socialism, Marxism, etc.): Libertarian Democratic Socialism
Are leftist thoughts legal in your nation: Yes
How are leftists treated in general: Extremely well
What percentage of your population support leftist ideas: 78%

More here:

Is your nation leftist: No.
If applicable, what kind of leftist idea does the government follow (ie Stalinism, Socialism, Marxism, etc.):
Are leftist thoughts legal in your nation: Yes.
How are leftists treated in general: They are a minority.
What percentage of your population support leftist ideas: About 3-6%

Is your nation leftist: the governing coalition consists of centre leftists and centrists
If applicable, what kind of leftist idea does the government follow Social democracy and green politics
Are leftist thoughts legal in your nation: yes
How are leftists treated in general: The same as other citizens
What percentage of your population support leftist ideas: depends on the idea 55% support moderate leftist ideas but only 6% support radical leftist ideas

Is your nation leftist: Absolutely not
If applicable, what kind of leftist idea does the government follow: N/A
Are leftist thoughts legal in your nation: Yes
How are leftists treated in general: Disowned by their families, shunned by their communities, ridiculed as materialist Western infiltrators by the rest of society, surveilled by the government (if they appear dangerous), and strongly encouraged to emigrate.
What percentage of your population support leftist ideas: 5-7% is 5-7% too many.

Surprisingly, leftist thoughts in our nation happen to be very common.

Is your nation leftist: Yes, both socially and economically.
If applicable, what kind of leftist idea does the government follow (ie Stalinism, Socialism, Marxism, etc.): Officially, the ideology of Gandoor is democratic market socialism. The current party in government, the New Democratic Party, is a centre-left social democratic party.
Are leftist thoughts legal in your nation: Yes
How are leftists treated in general: It's considered normal here so, they're treated normally?
What percentage of your population support leftist ideas: We don't directly keep track, but it's estimated to be between 80 and 90%.

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Is your nation leftist: Yes but with slight leaning to the right.
If applicable, what kind of leftist idea does the government follow (ie Stalinism, Socialism, Marxism, etc.): National Communism/Titoism
Are leftist thoughts legal in your nation: Obviously
How are leftists treated in general: Normal Citizens, however those who adhere to far-left forms of Communism such as Stalinism or Hoxhaism are looked down upon and often targeted.
What percentage of your population support leftist ideas: 75%

Is your nation leftist: No
If applicable, what kind of leftist idea does the government follow (ie Stalinism, Socialism, Marxism, etc.): N/A
Are leftist thoughts legal in your nation: Yes
How are leftists treated in general: With respect.
What percentage of your population support leftist ideas: Around 17%.

Is your nation leftist: Depends how you define it. On the one hand, Geadland does have a large public sector, high taxes and liberal culture. On the other hand, the economic system is still fundamentally capitalist, and the current government is right-wing.
If applicable, what kind of leftist idea does the government follow (ie Stalinism, Socialism, Marxism, etc.): Left-wing governments in Geadland have tended to be social democratic.
Are leftist thoughts legal in your nation: Yes, we have freedom of speech.
How are leftists treated in general: We generally don't think your political views should define you and dictate how you should live. The mainstream left is quite popular at the moment due to the lack of popularity of the national government. The hard left and far left are distrusted, but does have a dedicated following.
What percentage of your population support leftist ideas: In the last general election (June 2013), the Social Democratic and Labour Party took 29% of the vote, while other left-wing parties and candidates took about 8-9% of the vote. In the last two years, the percentage of votes supporting these parties has increased by about 5-7 percentage points in the polls.

Brandenbourg-Anhalt and leftist ideas:

Is your nation leftist: Yes. The current government has been taking the country further to the left economically since it took office earlier this year after winning the parliamentary elections in March. Before that, successive center-right governments took the country in a more rightist economic direction since the mid 1970's. Before the 1970's, the country was solidly to the center-left economically and the current government is trying to get the economy back into a center-left position.
If applicable, what kind of leftist idea does the government follow (ie Stalinism, Socialism, Marxism, etc.): Social Democracy/Democratic Socialism, sometimes economic Centrism.
Are leftist thoughts legal in your nation: All kinds of poltical thoughts are legal - you will however be prosecuted if you use your political beliefs to perpetrate or advocate violence against those who think differently than yourself. Also, there is a provision in the Brandenbourgish Constitution that allows the Justice Minister to take organizations to court to have them banned if they perpetrate or advocate violence against those who think differently than themselves.
How are leftists treated in general: Admired and supported by many, criticized by many - especially by people of the social "elite"/upper class.
What percentage of your population support leftist ideas: According to recent surveys, around 55 % of voters support social democratic or socialist economic policies, around 8 % support centrist economic policies, 16 % support moderate rightist (center-right) economic policies and 21 % support far-right economic policies.

Is your nation leftist: Kinda
If applicable, what kind of leftist idea does the government follow (ie Stalinism, Socialism, Marxism, etc.): Somewhat socialist
Are leftist thoughts legal in your nation: Yea why not
How are leftists treated in general: No different than anyone else
What percentage of your population support leftist ideas: No official survey has been conducted yet by any Kalosian institution, so no info available

Is your nation leftist:No.
If applicable, what kind of leftist idea does the government follow (ie Stalinism, Socialism, Marxism, etc.): N/A
Are leftist thoughts legal in your nation: Yes, but uncommon.
How are leftists treated in general: Marginalized by society, but only left-wing to far-left leftists.
What percentage of your population support leftist ideas: 3% far-left. 7% Left. 29% centre-left. 11% centre.

Is your nation leftist:
Yes.

If applicable, what kind of leftist idea does the government follow (ie Stalinism, Socialism, Marxism, etc.):
Marxism-Leninism.

Are leftist thoughts legal in your nation:
Communism and socialism are the only ideologies allowed in the Glorious Republic of Uruguay.

How are leftists treated in general:
Everyone is leftist, so normal.

What percentage of your population support leftist ideas:
100%

Is your nation leftist: To a point in some things.
If applicable, what kind of leftist idea does the government follow (ie Stalinism, Socialism, Marxism, etc.): Very few people are left to starve/be homeless.
Are leftist thoughts legal in your nation: Yes
How are leftists treated in general: Pretty well.
What percentage of your population support leftist ideas: About 50% support some left things although not more then 2% are far left.