After his party's overwhelming victory in Sunday's parliamentary election, Prime Minister Viktor Orban called Hungary "the most unified nation in Europe." In fact, it may well be the European Union's only dictatorship.
Orban has a lot in common with Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He has pushed through constitutional changes outlawing gay marriage and proclaiming Christianity's special role as a cornerstone of Hungarian statehood.
He fans the flames of Hungarian nationalism, issuing Hungarian passports to ethnic Hungarians living in neighboring countries and, in a recent speech, calling Serbian and Romanian towns by their Hungarian names. He is generous toward his businessmen friends (the Hungarian opposition loves to investigate them) and fond of big, weird infrastructure projects — such as a soccer stadium he is building near his summer home, with stands for twice the population of the nearby village.