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Dovahsebrom wrote: Zippertrain85 wrote: 789Snowbird987 wrote: Nah, a democracy wouldn't fit the Elder Scrolls.

-President Last Dragonborn, Senator Elisif the Fair of Solutide requests that you send troops to defend Haafingar.

-Advise Secretary-of-Defence Tullius, have him call Commander-in-Chief Rikke and tell her to send Colonel Hadvar's regiment.

Monarchies would fit better.

-Emperor Last Dragonborn, Elisif requests more troops to defend Haafingar.

-Then send Tullius' men, I have a meeting with Sheogorath; he promised some strawberry tarte.. Skyrim is basically already a democratic republic. It's been implied numerous times that the High King was elected, and that the people have a say in who their leaders are. They go by titles like King, Queen, Emperor, etc. But they're still democracies. "During the exceptionally long reign of King Harald, who died at 108 years of age and outlived all but three of his sons, a Moot was created, made up of representatives from each Hold, to choose the next King from qualified members of the royal family"

- Pocket Guide to the Empire, First Edition: Skyrim

Jarls, and only Jarls, are only elected if their is no capable heirs to the Dynasty ruling Skyrim.

Not to mention that even if it was fully elective it would be considered an Elective Monarchy, enormous difference from Democracy. That book may be outdated. It was said that Torygg was elected by the Moot despite that his father was High King before, and Ulfric was elected by the people, even though like Torygg his father was the previous Jarl. There might have been a revolution of some sort to make them an Elective Monarchy.