After the Revolutions of 1989 swept away most such regimes, Communism remained the official ideology of the ruling parties of China, Cuba, Laos and Vietnam, with North Korea a partial exception. Vietnam's Constitution enshrines the Communist Party's leading role in Article 4. Which category of country is being described?

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Communist state. A communist state is a country governed by a single ruling party that officially espouses Marxism-Leninism, with the party formally recognised as the vanguard of the working class. The five remaining examples today are China, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam and North Korea.