Monarchy setting: What does it do?

[Sam Handwich]

Hey all!

I just picked this game up on sale and have been playing around with it. I was wondering if anyone could explain what the Monarchy setting does in practice. It doesn't seem to be explained anywhere, even in the game's manual.

Thanks in advance!

[Gikgik]

The Monarchy setting seems to have one single gameplay effect: It allows the "Royal Scandal" dilemma.

[Ms Frizzle's Tasty Nipples]

It does very little. In reality, it should allow the possibility to lose the game through "dismissal": where your approval rating is so catastrophically low that the monarch is forced to dismiss you from office. It has happened here in Australia before in 1975.

[The Bean]

Should be another policy you can cancel/introduce.

[Gikgik]

Tried out a Monarchy slider some time ago, but scrapped it.

There could be an interesting choice between authorized sub-national monarchs (South Africa), figurehead monarch (Scandinavia), limited constitutional power (UK) or absolute power (Saudi Arabia).