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You’re not left.You’re not right.You’re something else entirely.
Map your politics across four dimensions into one of 32 archetypes, and see the signature that’s unmistakably yours.
- About 4 minutes
- 32 questions
- Free
- No sign-up
88% of the 843 people who rated their result said it was accurate. How we check
The 32 archetypes
Eight families. Thirty‑two ways to hold them.
Your result
See why you believe what you believe.
Sample resultIndependent LocalistCentrist family
≈5.9% of Scan takers · about 1 in 17
- Liberty
- 79
- Economy
- 56
- Nation
- 44
- Culture
- 53
Your result is a portrait: one of 32 archetypes, placed precisely on four axes, with the convictions you hold, the contradictions that make your worldview yours, and the moral instincts underneath it all.
- Your archetype and four scores
One of 32 archetypes, and exactly where you sit on liberty, economy, nation and culture.
- Your nearest matches
The three archetypes your answers sit closest to, out of all 32.
- Where you sit against everyone
Your percentile on your most distinctive axis, measured against other Scan takers.
- The AI model most like you
Which of the 31 AI models that took the same Scan answered closest to you.
- The books behind your type
A short reading list drawn from the thinkers who shaped your archetype.
Where you really stand
Four dimensions, not two.
Liberty
Liberty Authority
How much should the state shape private life: from maximal personal freedom to ordered authority.
Economic structure
Market Redistribution
Who should organize the economy: free exchange and private capital, or collective provision and redistribution.
National orientation
Global National
Where loyalty and decisions belong: with the wider world, or with the nation and its citizens first.
Cultural register
Progressive Conservative
How society should change: reform and openness, or continuity and inherited tradition.
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- 785thinkers in the lineage
From the team behind the World’s Smallest Political Quiz. And we check our work: after the Scan we ask whether your result fits, then use the answers to sharpen it. How we validate
After the Scan
Two ways to go further.
Deep Reading
Your politics, in chapters.
A personalized long-form reading written from your own answers, not your type: the strongest case for your position and the strongest challenge to it, your intellectual lineage, where you fit the parties, and where you broke from your kind. Chaptered, emailed to you, yours to keep. Not happy with it? Tell us within seven days.
“Rights do not enforce themselves. Someone pays for the enforcement, and that someone has a name.”
Intellectual lineage
Every archetype is a conversation with its thinkers.
Your result connects you to the writers and traditions that built the political position you arrived at: a map of where the ideas came from. Hannah Arendt didn’t predict your answers; she’s part of why some of them are even askable.
Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Friedrich Hayek, bell hooks, Søren Kierkegaard, Thomas Sowell
Browse the lineageCurious where you actually land?
About four minutes, thirty-two questions, no account required. You’ll get your archetype, how confident the read is, and why, plus everyone you can compare yourself to next.