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From what I understood, Non-Aligned ideology is supposed to represent dictatoroships/monarchies unaffiliated with facism or communism.
But what are its abilities? Are you able to get to it with countries that don't have it?
 

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From what I understood, Non-Aligned ideology is supposed to represent dictatoroships/monarchies unaffiliated with facism or communism.
But what are its abilities? Are you able to get to it with countries that don't have it?

You're confusing two concepts now. "Neutral" is the fourth political ideology, among Democracy, Fascism and Communism. It doesn't mean non-alignment, they can join factions and take sides like the others, and the main three ideologies can likewise remain non-aligned in the conflict.

As for the abilities of the Neutral ideology, they're somewhere between the main three ideologies, but they can't spread the Neutral ideology abroad and can't defend equally well against foreign ideological pressure.
 

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And you can switch from Neutral to fascism/communism/democracy, but you cant switch from one of these ideologies to Neutral.
But don't some of those overlap? "Neutral" is not a form of government... Surely Switzerland would fall under both the "democracy" category, and the "neutral" one?
 

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You're confusing two concepts now. "Neutral" is the fourth political ideology, among Democracy, Fascism and Communism. It doesn't mean non-alignment, they can join factions and take sides like the others, and the main three ideologies can likewise remain non-aligned in the conflict.

As for the abilities of the Neutral ideology, they're somewhere between the main three ideologies, but they can't spread the Neutral ideology abroad and can't defend equally well against foreign ideological pressure.

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Here it is called "non aligned"

Thank you, anyway. A pity that you can't switch to non-aligned however
 
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Here it is called "non aligned"

Thank you, anyway. A pity that you can't switch to non-aligned however

Ah, that means "not aligned with a party", I guess. The ideology itself is called neutral, though.
 
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Ah, that means "not aligned with a party", I guess. The ideology itself is called neutral, though.
I believe they changed it during the development. I recall too the ideology being called "neutral", with white color, but it seems it was replaced with the grey "non-aligned"
 

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I believe they changed it during the development. I recall too the ideology being called "neutral", with white color, but it seems it was replaced with the grey "non-aligned"

Huh, looking at the China DD you seem to be correct. Weird how they'd replace "Neutral" with an equally poor name...
 
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Yeah its alignment, government type is different from alignment, so you can't have a democracy guy do a coup if you technically you are already a democracy. I think, at least.
 

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Yeah, I mean "Neutral" and "Non-aligned" both imply a foreign political stance to me, while in this context it means an internal political rule of the country. A Fascist, Democratic or Socialist country can be neutral by not joining the war, and a Neutral country can equally join the big factions and definitely take sides in the war.