News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Wikipedia editors serving long sentences in Saudi Arabia ... by throwaway09223 on Monday January 16, 2023 @02:51PM (#34404732)
Plenty of democratic countries have monarchs. Most of Europe still has monarchs, because they're constitutional monarchies -- which is a fairly common democratic form of government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_monarchy

What matters is not whether there is a king, but the details of how the specific powers are allocated between the different parts of government. Sweden is also a constitutional monarchy, with a king.

Re:Wikipedia editors serving long sentences in Saudi Arabia ... by ithkuil on Monday January 16, 2023 @04:10PM (#34405520)
Two of European monarchies are also peculiar in that they are elective: the Vatican and Andorra. (The Vatican is also technically a theocracy)