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Neves was authoritarian in his governance and believed that socialism was one of the pillars of a utopian society free from bourgeois oppression and internal struggles caused by ideological differences. He established Estandé as a semi-autarkic state, prioritising self-sufficiency over globalist trade. He believed that the population would thrive just with the bare minimum, and that was of sustenance, happiness, purpose and equality. For only under sustenance will the person be happy, for being happy does a person have a purpose, and through purpose, equality, both cultural and economic, is achieved. Nevesism is paternalistic in nature, a description also within Neves' manifesto; restrictive and authoritarian ideals give way to a stable state, but the state must not be oppressive nor indifferent to the people's plight, especially to the worker.

Unlike his future successor, Neves was not a militant atheist, as it went against his paternalistic ideas. Only were the clergy and the religious prosecuted after his tenure, as, although his successors were self-described Nevesists, they did not hold paternalism as a core Nevesist idea. After his rule, paternalism was no longer a part of the Nevesist ideology, and it was morphed into an authoritarian and, by moderate terms, oppressive ideology. Paternalism gradually returned as a core belief of Nevesism and Nevesists today are closer to Prime Minister Neves' communism than even past self-proclaimed Nevesists that emerged after his tenure.