They include repressive regimes such as Algeria, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
Many capital changes happen under authoritarian regimes – such as that of Burma.
The superpower could be less uncritically supportive of autocratic regimes such as Saudi Arabia's.
Unpopular regimes, such as Zimbabwe's, often use violence to terrify restless citizens into submission.
But they are strangely silent on the horrors perpetrated by atheist regimes, such as those of Stalin and Mao.
Its roots can be traced to the hard left's sympathy for postwar eastern bloc totalitarian regimes such as the USSR, Poland and Hungary, where Jews were routinely oppressed.
Nor was it the enjoyment of power for power's sake, as many representations of totalitarian regimes, such as George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-four," suggested.
Critics accuse PTI of exporting weapons to repressive regimes such as Burma and Zimbabwe, which paves the way for resource extraction by Chinese-owned firms.
Militant Islamism is the main – and increasing – threat, but Christians have also been targeted by extremists of other faiths and totalitarian regimes such as North Korea.
Reportedly, the UK's biggest ad agency WPP set up holding companies and what tax experts call "other entities" in low-tax regimes such as Ireland.
Lloyds defends itself by arguing that fragmented banking systems can be unstable, and that highly concentrated regimes such as Canada's and Australia's have actually proven safer.
