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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nikolai" data-source="post: 1542189" data-attributes="member: 10130">Speaking from the UK: the monarchs function is largely ceremonial. They do have powers and privileges (public money relating to their upkeep, and tax exemption), but there's no question that parliament is in charge. Politics goes on much the same as it does in the US. There is a continuing simmering debate about the future of the monarchy, but it isn't a big issue. People worry about other things and it would take a lot of effort to change the situation, effort that most people would rather spend changing other things.Some people love the monarchy, and others hate it just as much. Current opinion is probably slightly in favour. There aren't weekly love/hate polls on the monarchy (as the job of running the country rests with the Prime Minister), but there are polls and there's an awareness that the monarchy need public support to exist. Mostly the royal family it treated as soap opera stuff for the tabloids.This type of consitutional monarchy doesn't really have much in common with the sort of tyrannies that used to rule large chunks of Europe. I'm not sure if the present monarchies are the best place to look at as models for D&D. Kingship used to be a really violent and oppressive institution which was just about gaining and holding on to power. There are all sorts of very bloody incidents in history to do with the seizure or maintainance of the throne.It's also probably worth pointing out that there are monarchies which are despotisms and where the King does have very real power, and you'd get quite different answers from people living in those places.Re: the InterregnumThere are countries who have reinstituted a monarchy quite recently, Spain for example. There are plenty of dispossessed aristocrats wandering around Europe, who given the right political climate, would jump at the chance of getting their families old jobs back. Some states ruled by monarchs have been founded quite recently (i.e. in the 20th century), several Middle Eastern countries spring to mind. The return of monarchs and the increase in their powers isn't unknown, and moves in this direction are still happening in some places (Afganistan and Liechenstein anyone?).</blockquote>

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