Those question are leading and very black/white, I would cherish a middle ground option, so many multi-faceted issues and such few maneuvering possibilities.
One has to account for relativism as well, for instance; I come from Norway, which has a very moderate right-wing that is a lot more leftist than most of Europe and mostly a central movement, if anything. And the central parties and leftists have moved further to the right due to economic development and a high employment rate.
Despite this, here in Sweden, Norway is considered extremely right-wing in both opinion and policy, they even consider the socialist leftist party to be too conservative for their tastes and they see the right-wing as fascists and nazi's.
The truth lies somewhere in between directions; Norway has a hybrid economy and a few hybrid solutions but has a welfare system that is considerably farther to the left than the Swedish one, for instance, we also have a much smaller private sector in healthcare and education in Norway. So, they see us as extremely right-wing while they live in a society which fronts a more leftist opinion but is largely based upon a more right-wing structure, that is my observation anyhow.
With international differences, local opinion, poltitical and religious (and to some extent; moral) relativism, this "compass" is entirely useless.
PS: For the record; I'm more or less in the center, neither the left nor right wing have a viable, long-term social and economic model to base policies on and both encourage absolutism and oppression in some form.
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