Improving the Constitution

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I believe it's more about European monarchs not willing to trade with you (but that's also unrealistic - trade knows no ideological limits - see USSR trading with democratic countries and vice versa). And monarch is not necessary a tyrant (in the modern days there are only a few absolute monarchies - Vatican, and Saudi Arabia, Swaziland, Quatar, Oman, yet there are 44 monarchies, or 29 if you count Elisabeth II once).

There is a MASSIVE difference between a Monarchy and a Constitutional Monarchy. The constitutional one implies power on the Monarch via the Constitution, which is management by Parliament (read: the People). Therefore, in a CM such as Australia and other Commonwealth nations the Monarch is still not the final power, the People are. However in a true Monarchy such as Saudi Arabia the final power rests in the Monarch.

So you cannot compare the CM's of today to the Monarchy's in Europe of the time depicted in this game.