Capto Iugulum Background Thread

[J.K. Stockholme]

Maps? I love maps:

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Absolute Monarchy - Dark Blue
Constitutional Monarchy - Teal/Medium Blue
Parliamentary Monarchy - Blue
Executive Republic - Yellow
Presidential Republic - Orange
Electoral Dictatorship - Dark Yellow (Chile and Militarist Cuba)
Military Dictatorship - Dark Gray
Proletarist Dictatorship - Red

Gray - Colonial Possessions
Brown/Rusty Red - Post Colonial States

 

[Luckymoose]

Ecuador is a monarchy.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

How do you define the difference between a parliamentary monarchy and a constitutional monarchy?

 

[J.K. Stockholme]

I just took the government types from the stats.

Yeah, Ecuador is an error, use map with caution (I think that's the only error).

 

[JohannaK]

Adjuuramark is a monarchy.

 

[Grandkhan]

Pretty sure Spain should be a parliamentary monarchy according to the constitution I laid out for it with Nintz. Maybe Nintz or Milarqui changed that.

I think a parliamentary monarchy is a state where the leader of the executive is selected by an elected body of legislators (see: UK, Britain, Australia) wheras a constitutional monarchy has the head of the executive elected directly by the population - think the US with a king grafted onto it somewhere, who does nothing.

 

[Jehoshua]

A parliamentary monachy as you have defined it, IS a constitutional monarchy. It is not really an entirely separate category of monarchy I would say. Indeed I would conclude that "parliamentary monarchy" is simply constitutional monarchy with a parliament, ergo its a contextual reference to the parliamentary nature of the polity of those nations (in the nation stats) rather than anything else..

At any rate, the main definer of a constitutional monarchy is that the monarchs powers are circumscribed and limited within constitutional boundaries (and often by convention), not that the monarch is powerless.

 

[Luckymoose]

For example, the Brazilian monarch isn't entirely powerless, he just chooses, based on tradition, to not exercise his powers.

 

[Lord of Elves]

I'd like to point out that the Kongo Society state is hardly a parliamentary/constitutional state in practice. Also worth considering that both the Workers' Commonwealth and UPRA have free elections even if they do not affect the governmental executive.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

I'll point out that LoE is a dirty proletarist who can't be trusted to speak the truth about the legitimate democratic government of Scandinavia.

 

[Grandkhan]

Actually, interesting point about the Kongo and whether its a parliamentary or consitutional state in practice:

What are the demographics of the white-ruled independent countries in Africa? I'm talking, Oranjien, Hollandia, Tadjoura, South Africa, and the Kongo. Are they majority white or majority black? Do they have a significant population of disadvantaged native Africans? Can these people serve in the military or vote?

Its an interesting point. I'm pretty sure Oranjien was a settler colony, so I'm not sure how many black people there are, but yeah. I'm curious about this.

 

[Lord of Elves]

Actual, permanent settlement in the Kongo was to my knowledge virtually non-existent (to the exception of lavish, palatial plantation homes of Kongo Society members etc etc) prior to the diaspora of traitors and enemies of the Revolution.

Tadjoura was also to my knowledge never significantly, or even marginally, settled by Europeans.

 

[Jehoshua]

On Ethiopia and Tadjoura

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It appears that there may be some confusion regarding the religious affiliations of these two african nations. Ethiopia presumably would be Oriental Orthodox (as compared to Eastern Orthodox like Russia or Byzantium) which would make the sweepingly broad classification of "orthodox christianity" quite innaccurate with regards to religious affiliations considering the heterodox teachings of oriental orthodoxy on the two natures of Christ (miaphysite trending towards monophysitism).

 

[J.K. Stockholme]

I want to know what an electoral dictatorship is, and how its different from a military dictatorship.

 

[Luckymoose]

I want to know what an electoral dictatorship is, and how its different from a military dictatorship.

It is all in the name, eh? One is elected and the other is backed by the military.

 

[bestshot9]

I believe the Kongo experimented with allowing natives into its armed forces but that didn't go very well, so as of now its only whites in the Kongo military.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

It continues to go quite poorly, as many of the people they armed gleefully took part in the dismemberment of the Kongo.

 

[Jehoshua]

Dismemberment is what happens to Empires which tolerate proletarist dissent amongst the populace and get exiled to the Congo as a consequence. Its the natural order of things.

 

[Lord of Elves]

Dismemberment is what happens to Empires which tolerate proletarist dissent amongst the populace and get exiled to the Congo as a consequence. Its the natural order of things.

Scandinavia has never been dismembered. Even traitors like the Kongo Society failed of their own incompetence, not out of the successful intervention of a foreign power.

Unbroken and unbowed!

 

[Luckymoose]

Scandinavia has never been dismembered. Even traitors like the Kongo Society failed of their own incompetence, not out of the successful intervention of a foreign power.

Unbroken and unbowed!

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