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Countries today
ArgentinaFederal presidential republic
AustraliaFederal parliamentary monarchy
AustriaFederal parliamentary republic
BangladeshParliamentary republic in transition
BelarusPersonalist dictatorship
BelgiumFederal parliamentary monarchy
BoliviaPlurinational presidential republic
BrazilFederal presidential republic
BulgariaParliamentary republic
CanadaFederal parliamentary monarchy
ChilePresidential republic
ChinaOne-party communist state
ColombiaPresidential republic
Costa RicaPresidential republic without an army
CroatiaParliamentary republic
CubaOne-party communist state
CyprusPresidential republic
CzechiaParliamentary republic
DenmarkNordic parliamentary monarchy
EgyptMilitary-backed presidential republic
El SalvadorRepublic under a dominant president
EstoniaParliamentary republic
EthiopiaEthnic federal republic
FinlandNordic parliamentary republic
FranceCentralised semi-presidential republic
GeorgiaParliamentary republic under a dominant party
GermanyFederal parliamentary republic
GreeceParliamentary republic
HungarySelf-described "illiberal democracy"
IcelandParliamentary republic
IndiaFederal parliamentary republic
IndonesiaPresidential republic
IranShia theocratic republic
IraqFederal parliamentary republic
IrelandParliamentary republic
IsraelParliamentary republic and Jewish state
ItalyParliamentary republic
JapanParliamentary constitutional monarchy
KenyaPresidential republic with devolved counties
LatviaParliamentary republic
LithuaniaSemi-presidential republic
LuxembourgParliamentary grand duchy
MalaysiaFederal elective constitutional monarchy
MaltaParliamentary republic
MexicoFederal presidential republic
MoroccoConstitutional monarchy with a powerful king
NetherlandsParliamentary monarchy
New ZealandParliamentary monarchy
NigeriaFederal presidential republic
North KoreaHereditary one-party dictatorship
NorwayNordic parliamentary monarchy
PakistanFederal Islamic republic with a powerful military
PeruPresidential republic
PhilippinesPresidential republic
PolandParliamentary republic
PortugalSemi-presidential republic
QatarAbsolute monarchy
RomaniaSemi-presidential republic
RussiaPersonalist authoritarian federation
RwandaDominant-party presidential republic
Saudi ArabiaAbsolute Islamic monarchy
SerbiaRepublic under a dominant president
SingaporeDominant-party parliamentary republic
SlovakiaParliamentary republic
SloveniaParliamentary republic
South AfricaParliamentary republic
South KoreaPresidential republic
SpainParliamentary monarchy with powerful regions
SwedenNordic parliamentary monarchy
SwitzerlandFederal direct democracy
TaiwanSemi-presidential democracy
ThailandConstitutional monarchy with a powerful military
TurkeyPresidential republic with competitive authoritarianism
UkraineSemi-presidential republic under martial law
United Arab EmiratesFederation of hereditary monarchies
United KingdomParliamentary monarchy with devolved nations
United StatesFederal presidential republic
UruguayPresidential republic
VenezuelaAuthoritarian "Bolivarian" republic
VietnamOne-party communist state
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Through history
- c. 650–371 BCSpartaMilitarised oligarchy with two kings
- 509–27 BCRoman RepublicAristocratic republic
- 508–322 BCDemocratic AthensDirect democracy
- 268–232 BCAshoka’s Maurya EmpireBuddhist imperial monarchy
- 27 BC – AD 284Roman EmpireImperial autocracy
- 330–1453Byzantine EmpireChristian imperial autocracy
- 618–907Tang ChinaCosmopolitan imperial monarchy
- 697–1797Republic of VeniceMerchant oligarchic republic
- 750–1258Abbasid CaliphateIslamic caliphate
- 1206–1294Mongol EmpireNomadic conquest empire
- 1438–1533Inca EmpireTheocratic planned empire
- 1453–1839Ottoman EmpireIslamic imperial sultanate
- 1588–1795Dutch RepublicMerchant confederal republic
- 1603–1868Tokugawa JapanFeudal military shogunate
- 1644–1912Qing ChinaConfucian imperial monarchy
- 1740–1871PrussiaMilitarist enlightened absolutism
- 1793–1794Jacobin FranceRevolutionary dictatorship
- 1799–1815Napoleonic FrancePlebiscitary empire
- 1837–1901Victorian BritainLiberal imperial monarchy
- 1867–1918Austria-HungaryMultinational dual monarchy
- 1868–1912Meiji JapanModernising imperial oligarchy
- 1870–1900Gilded Age AmericaLaissez-faire federal republic
- 1870–1940France’s Third RepublicSecular parliamentary republic
- 1871Paris CommuneRevolutionary commune
- 1919–1933Weimar RepublicParliamentary republic
- 1919–1934Red ViennaSocial-democratic city government
- 1922–1991Soviet UnionOne-party communist state
- 1922–1943Fascist ItalyFascist one-party state
- 1931–1945Imperial JapanMilitarist imperial state
- 1932–1976Sweden’s “People’s Home”Social-democratic welfare state
- 1933–1945New Deal AmericaFederal republic building a welfare state
- 1933–1945Nazi GermanyNazi totalitarian dictatorship
- 1936–1937Revolutionary CataloniaAnarchist revolutionary territory
- 1939–1975Francoist SpainNational-Catholic military dictatorship
- 1945–1992Socialist YugoslaviaNon-aligned self-management socialism
- 1945–1951Attlee’s BritainParliamentary welfare state
- 1948–1994Apartheid South AfricaWhite-minority racial state
- 1949–1976Maoist ChinaMaoist one-party state
- 1949–1990East GermanyOne-party communist state
- 1949–1990West GermanyFederal parliamentary republic
- 1970–1973Allende’s ChileElected Marxist government
- 1973–1990Pinochet’s ChileMilitary junta
- 1975–1979Khmer Rouge CambodiaAgrarian communist totalitarian regime