Quote Originally Posted by SwordsMaster View Post
And I'd like to point out that some of the most stable, sane and long lived states today are monarchies: Liechestein, Monaco, Netherlands or the Vatican. In fairness if we were to follow an example of government, the Vatican's would be the one to follow as it has survived for 2000 years. As far as governments go, that's a success story in my book.
3 of those 4 are exceptionally small states though, almost any government could last in them for a good length of time.