Old style governments in modern day?

[timberwolf4545]

Is there a way to make Monarchy, Feudalism or Despotism appealing in the mordern eras? In 2004 there are still Monarchies in the world; Saudi Arabia for one and Iraq was a despotism previous to the US invasion. We're now in a "transitional anarchy stage". Maybe certain governments could be tied to resources? Like cash cow resources like oil, uranium and coal incline your civ to want a different government? It seems like these Govs are are just stepping stones to Republic at this point.

Speaking of govs - it would be interesting if certain imporvements cost a lot more for certain govs. Example - Monarchies couldn't build science improvements very well, but could build religious improvements cheaply. That would tie in to a King wanting to reinforce their devinity and keep their people in the dark about truth and science.

 

[Yuri2356]

But not all monarchies are backed by gods. Some kings are just kings.

 

[dh_epic]

I think an important part of this would be letting the governments evolve.

The Greek Republics and Democratic attitudes from 200 BC are WAAAAAAAAAAY different from the democratic governments of today.

The same way that the Saudi Arabian monarchy is similar to the classical European monarchies, but different. Rather than leveraging divine right, they leverage their family ties and reputation.

Governments do evolve. Even the Roman Emperors were different from the Egyptian Pharoahs -- despotism changed a lot.