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For the most part, Europe is controlled by monarchies and imperial dynasties, many of which oversea long reaching colonial empires. Certainly, many of those nations have a parliaments, but even those are under a monarch with power, if not wholly puppet legislatures.

So the challenge is to have Democratic governments take off in Europe, whether with the monarchy as only figureheads, or without any monarch and only elected representatives.

OOC: POD is that the status quo of the late 19th/early 20th century remains for whatever reason. Maybe a Socialist utopia here or there, but for the most part monarchist states with colonial empires under the most powerful of them.
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