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Region: The Western Isles

Nhoor wrote:Yes, but officially a monarchy. The country could have had a monarchical tradition until one king decided to adopt communism to reinforce the power of the royal family and use it to suppress more liberal/democratic ideas towards a constitutional monarchy. Or something like that.

Segentova, weird perhaps, but there are far weirder things in the world.

I don't know about that. An absolutist monarch who is also a communist dictator?
I mean sure, communist dictators that also act as absolutists monarchs are nothing new... Many dictatorships become quasi-monarchical if they can manage to exist for more than a generation. But a king who is also a communist? Color me confused.

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