While other countries have had cults of personality to various degrees, the pervasiveness and extreme nature of North Korea's personality cult surpasses that of Stalin or Mao Zedong.[6] The cult is also marked by the intensity of the people's feelings for and devotion to their leaders,[7]:25 and the key role played by a Confucianized ideology of familism both in maintaining the cult and thereby in sustaining the regime itself. The North Korean cult of personality is a large part of North Korean socialism and totalitarianism.