AHC: A world without monarchies

With any POD before present-day, have a present-day world exist where no one takes monarchy seriously anymore and it is a defunct and archaic system of government.

No hereditary or elective monarchy may exist in any way, this includes 'monarchical' diarchies, triarchies etc. The only 'monarchy' that is allowed is basically a republic whose head of state is called by a monarchical name, but is elected by direct popular vote. Also no countries are allowed to have official nobility.

Not sure how difficult this would be, but I made it an AHC.

Here is a list of current monarchies which would have to either not exist or be republics in this challenge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_sovereign_monarchs

Vatican City is pretty impossible as a republic (a democratically elected pope? by all Catholics?) so I think it would not have to exist. It's both a monarchy and a theocracy so try to not have it exist.
 
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With any POD before present-day, have a present-day world exist where no one takes monarchy seriously anymore and it is a defunct and archaic system of government.

No hereditary or elective monarchy may exist in any way, this includes 'monarchical' diarchies, triarchies etc. The only 'monarchy' that is allowed is basically a republic whose head of state is called by a monarchical name, but is elected by direct popular vote.

Not sure how difficult this would be, but I made it an AHC.

Here is a list of current monarchies which would have to either not exist or be republics in this challenge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_sovereign_monarchs

Vatican City is pretty impossible as a republic (a democratically elected pope? by all Catholics?) so I think it would not have to exist. It's both a monarchy and a theocracy so try to not have it exist.

I don't see why the Vatican has to go. The Pope, AIUI, is elected by the Cardinals, from the College of Cardinals. It's hardly a hereditary position...
 

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Does this include republican dictatorships as pseudo-monarchies? Or regimes like the Lopez regime in Paraguay and the current Kim regime in the DPRK where a dictatorial family rules despite the country being officially a country?
 
Pretty impossible or at least very difficult. Perhaps you can get Europe totally republican and even that is very difficult. Hardly it would work even if Napoleon Bonaparte doesn't declare himself as emperor and France manage conquer almost whole Europe and I don't see this being possible.
 
This would be almost impossible, monarchy is pretty much the default form of government in human history. Scaling up from the chief of a nomadic or smaller clan to a settled kingdom composed of multiple tribes or extended family groups, the concept of a hereditary strong man (or occasionally woman) with an ancestral right to rule backed by some kind of religious meaning is quite common.

There are important differences between civilizations as distant as the Aztecs and the Ancient Egyptians, but their societies are still much closer to each other than either one is to the post-enlightenment concept of liberalism and mass democracy.

Forms of government can proliferate and become displaced in a kind of institutional natural selection, but it's hard for any form of government or social practice to become totally extinct. Europe is dominated by nation-states today, but there are still small monarchies and duchies around like Liechtenstein and Luxembourg. They're kind of like the sharks that have been around for millions of years, or the Dinosaur DNA preserved in the mosquito in amber from jurassic park.

The world still has un-contacted hunter-gather groups in parts of the Amazon that exist at the same time as massive nation-states with hundreds of millions of people. The world has seen lots of universalistic, conquering religions and ideologies but none have covered the ENTIRE planet yet.
 
No hereditary or elective monarchy may exist in any way, this includes 'monarchical' diarchies, triarchies etc. The only 'monarchy' that is allowed is basically a republic whose head of state is called by a monarchical name, but is elected by direct popular vote.

Elective monarchy is sort of a grey area. Many Presidents are practically elected monarchs. I would restrict this challenge to eliminating hereditary monarchy.
 
Does this include republican dictatorships as pseudo-monarchies? Or regimes like the Lopez regime in Paraguay and the current Kim regime in the DPRK where a dictatorial family rules despite the country being officially a country?
No, those can exist. Only official monarchies count (whose heads of state are called king/queen, emperor/empress...)
Are traditional aristocratic republics also included/excluded?
Aristocratic/Oligarchic republics can exist, as long as the head of state is 'elected' in some way.
Elective monarchy is sort of a grey area. Many Presidents are practically elected monarchs. I would restrict this challenge to eliminating hereditary monarchy.
But the only elective monarchies in existance are still kind of hereditary. There isn't a single monarchy where the people elect the monarch. All elective monarchies that exist are some kind of limited council/assembly that chooses the monarch out of a single family or people who are already monarchs. An elective monarchy can ONLY exist if he/she is elected by universal suffrage (basically a president with a monarchical title).
 
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Only way is to get whole world go communist
Not necessarily. French Republicans of the 19th century could abolish all monarchies in Europe, then colonialism by republics could replace all monarchies outside of Europe with first company rule and then independent republics after decolonization.
 
Does this include republican dictatorships as pseudo-monarchies? Or regimes like the Lopez regime in Paraguay and the current Kim regime in the DPRK where a dictatorial family rules despite the country being officially a country?

No, those can exist. Only official monarchies count (whose heads of state are called king/queen, emperor/empress...)

So, the Early Roman Empire can exist, since it's technically a Republic ruled by a military 'commander' (a.k.a imperator)...which is quite similar to the current Kim regime.
 
So, the Early Roman Empire can exist, since it's technically a Republic ruled by a military 'commander' (a.k.a imperator)...which is quite similar to the current Kim regime.
If we're comparing the Roman Empire to the Kim regime, then

Comrade Stalin, Premier (primus inter pares), Marshal (imperator), Dictator (dictator), Chairman (princeps senatus)
 
How is the papacy 'still kind of hereditary'?
Oops, I forgot about that. But Vatican City is still considered a monarchy so it has to not exist. If you can get the Pope elected by universal suffrage, it would be allowed to exist.
Alternatively, get Vatican City to not be considered a monarchy? Is Vatican City even a monarchy? It's more of a theocracy, but it seems it still is considered a monarchy by the world.
 
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