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L Apartheid South Africa @ 1985 The South African apartheid state during the 1985 emergency, enforcing racial domination through law, policing, land exclusion, and political repression. It scores as malignant because governance rights were structurally racialized and opposition faced state violence. racial authoritarian state
FMALIGNANT-69 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
L Aum Shinrikyo @ 1995 A Japanese apocalyptic religious movement evaluated at the year of the Tokyo subway sarin attack. It scores at the floor because charismatic religious control, chemical attack planning, murder, secrecy, and coercive identity formation were central rather than incidental. apocalyptic religious cult
FMALIGNANT-90 tentative score
High confidence (AI) Severe-5
BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha @ 2021 A global Hindu Swaminarayan organization known for temples, community service, youth programming, and volunteer networks, evaluated here at the year of major U.S. temple labor allegations. It scores low because religious-service value is undercut by hierarchy, caste/labor allegations, youth identity formation, and weak affected-worker control. Hindu religious organization
FMALIGNANT-6 tentative score
High confidence (AI) None found0
L British Raj @ 1943 British colonial rule in India during the Bengal famine and wartime repression. The score is malignant because imperial administration retained extractive control while famine, emergency coercion, and political subordination showed that subjects lacked meaningful power over life-critical decisions. colonial government
FMALIGNANT-73 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) Limited-1
L Congo Free State under Leopold II @ 1897 Leopold II's private Congo regime during the rubber terror, using hostage-taking, forced quotas, and violent extraction. The score is near the bottom because corporate-style resource extraction was fused with sovereign violence over a colonized population. private colonial state
FMALIGNANT-99 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
Danish Civil Resistance @ 1943 Danish resistance and civil society during the October 1943 rescue of most Danish Jews to Sweden. It scores as a rare historical good because ordinary civic networks bore risk to protect a targeted minority from Nazi deportation. civil resistance network
AGOOD62 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
L Democratic Kampuchea @ 1977 The Khmer Rouge regime near the middle of its rule, when forced agrarian collectivization, executions, starvation, and destruction of social life were central policy. It scores at the floor because ordinary life was converted into compulsory ideological labor under lethal state control. genocidal one-party state
FMALIGNANT-93 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
L East India Company @ 1770 A British chartered corporation exercising revenue and governing power in Bengal at the time of the 1770 famine. The snapshot scores as malignant because commercial extraction had become governing power, with famine, coercive revenue policy, and imperial monopoly wrapped in corporate form. chartered imperial company
FMALIGNANT-73 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) Limited-1
Haitian Revolution @ 1804 The Haitian Revolution at independence, after enslaved people overthrew French colonial slavery and declared Haiti free. It scores high as a liberation anchor, with penalties for revolutionary violence and unstable concentrated postwar authority preventing an unqualified top rating. liberation movement and new state
BQUALIFIED44 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
L Islamic State / ISIS @ 2014 The Islamic State at the declaration of its caliphate, combining armed conquest, religious totalitarianism, slavery, sexual violence, terror attacks, and rule over civilian life. It scores at the floor because coercive violence and human harm were the institutional model. jihadist proto-state
FMALIGNANT-112 tentative score
High confidence (AI) Material-2
L Ma Ba Tha @ 2017 A Myanmar Buddhist nationalist movement evaluated during the Rohingya crisis era. It scores as malignant because religious identity, nationalist politics, anti-Muslim mobilization, and public pressure contributed to an atmosphere of persecution rather than protective community practice. Buddhist nationalist movement
FMALIGNANT-43 tentative score
High confidence (AI) None found0
Mondragon Cooperative Movement @ 1956 The founding moment of Ulgor and the Mondragon cooperative movement in the Basque Country. It scores high because production was organized around worker membership, cooperative education, and community development rather than investor ownership, though early scale and founder dependence limit the snapshot. worker cooperative founding movement
AGOOD58 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
L Nazi Germany @ 1942 The Nazi state at the point when the Final Solution was being coordinated across occupied Europe. The snapshot scores at the floor because genocide, war, forced labor, surveillance, ideological totalization, and bureaucratic murder were central state functions. genocidal state
FMALIGNANT-104 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
New Deal United States @ 1935 The United States during the Second New Deal, when relief, jobs programs, public works, labor protections, and regulatory reforms materially changed state obligations during depression. It scores in the qualified middle because it expanded public loss-bearing and employment support while preserving racial exclusions, hierarchy, and state coercion. reform government
CPERFORMATIVE35 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
Paris Commune @ 1871 The Paris Commune during its short 1871 self-government experiment after the Franco-Prussian War. It scores in the qualified range because it widened municipal and worker power, but civil-war conditions, coercion, instability, and brief duration limit the institutional claim. revolutionary municipal government
DEXTRACTIVE31 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
L People's Republic of China under Mao @ 1966 Mao-era China at the launch of the Cultural Revolution, mobilizing youth, party discipline, and ideological purification against perceived enemies. It scores as malignant because mass politics was routed through leader-centered coercion, social terror, and institutional destruction. one-party state
FMALIGNANT-70 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
People's Temple @ 1978 Jim Jones's People's Temple at the year of the Jonestown murder-suicide, after migration to Guyana and escalating coercive control. It scores at the floor because egalitarian and religious rhetoric collapsed into captivity, violence, murder, suicide pressure, and total charismatic domination. high-control religious commune
FMALIGNANT-84 tentative score
High confidence (AI) None found0
L Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh @ 2024 A Hindu nationalist volunteer organization and ideological network closely associated with Indian public life and the broader Hindutva movement. It scores as malignant because identity formation, paramilitary-style discipline, majoritarian politics, and policy influence create severe risks for minorities and democratic pluralism. Hindu nationalist volunteer organization
FMALIGNANT-35 tentative score
High confidence (AI) None found0
L Roman Empire @ 117 CE The Roman Empire at its territorial high point under Trajan, with administrative durability, public works, roads, and law coexisting with conquest, slavery, and emperor-centered rule. It scores low because imperial order and infrastructure rested on domination rather than accountable consent. ancient empire
FMALIGNANT-30 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
L Russian Orthodox Church / Moscow Patriarchate @ 2022 The Moscow Patriarchate at the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, when church leadership gave religious framing to state war power. It scores as malignant because national-religious authority, state alignment, war legitimation, and identity capture fused into coercive public power. state-aligned church
FMALIGNANT-38 tentative score
High confidence (AI) None found0
Solidarity Poland @ 1980 The Polish Solidarity movement at its emergence as an independent worker union in the Soviet bloc. It scores high because it created worker power, public dissent, and nonviolent pressure against a one-party state, though later political paths and outside geopolitical uses limit the cleanest rating. independent trade union movement
AGOOD58 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
L Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1933 The Soviet Union at the peak of the Holodomor and forced collectivization catastrophe. The snapshot scores as malignant because state planning, grain control, coercive collectivization, and ideological denial combined into mass death. one-party state
FMALIGNANT-77 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
L Soviet Union under Stalin @ 1937 The Soviet Union during the Great Purge, when party, military, state, and ordinary civic life were subjected to terror, imprisonment, executions, and ideological control. It scores as malignant because egalitarian claims were operationally contradicted by concentrated party-state domination. one-party state
FMALIGNANT-73 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
L Spanish Inquisition @ 1492 The Spanish Inquisition at the year of Jewish expulsion and intensified religious-state purity politics. It scores as malignant because coerced conversion, surveillance, torture, confiscation, and religious conformity were formal institutional tools. religious-state tribunal
FMALIGNANT-76 tentative score
High confidence (AI) None found0
L United States under slavery @ 1850 The United States after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, combining electoral constitutionalism for some people with chattel slavery and federal enforcement of slaveholder power. It scores as malignant because constitutional liberty was racially bounded and state power protected human ownership. constitutional republic with slavery
FMALIGNANT-77 tentative score
High confidence (AI) None found0