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And Catholic — truly and very Catholic — Poland is doing best of all.

Catholics and Orthodox, however, regard government that is not obedient to the Church as an anomaly at best, and sinful generally, since the Middle Ages. So their secular governments are a bunch of scoundrels, as a rule.

But do you agree that Protestant countries are generally of different mold as it comes to government and economics? After all Protestantism arose in great part in order to provide an ethical basis for the secular capitalist economics?

Catholics and Orthodox, however, regard government that is not obedient to the Church as an anomaly at best, and sinful generally, since the Middle Ages. So their secular governments are a bunch of scoundrels, as a rule.

The thing is that Poland proves the exception to this, as did the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Holy Roman Empire before that.

the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth was majority Catholic but not overwhelmingly, so it had room for dialogue and peaceful debates. The government wasn't under the rule of the Church

And this, paradoxically, was better for the Church as there wasn't the anti-clerical actions that occurred in the rest of Europe