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The horizontal axis runs from collective provision to private enterprise: who should own things, and who should decide how they are distributed. The vertical axis runs from personal liberty to social authority: how much the state may direct private conduct. They are deliberately independent, because in practice they are — economic and social views come apart in people far more often than a single left-to-right line allows.

An earlier version placed people on a compass rose with eight bearings. It looked better and read worse: a bearing tells you a direction but not a magnitude, and readers consistently mistook the needle for a verdict. A 3×3 grid can be taught in one animation — the vertical guide finds your economic score, the horizontal finds your social one, and the cell where they cross is the name you get. The precision standpoint mark survives as the logo.

It is not a diagnosis, not a prediction of how you vote, and not a measure of how well-informed you are. Nine named regions cannot contain the actual variety of political belief, and the name you get is a label for a neighbourhood, not a description of you. If a statement felt like it was missing an option you would have chosen, that is a real limitation of the format and not a subtle test of something.

Every statement, weight, region name and illustration here is original work. None of it is derived from other published political tests, whose propositions are copyrighted and whose weights were never disclosed in any case.