Fantasy Governments

>Nanarchy
Ruled by old women whose children have children. The title of nobility is "Nana".

What'd be the 'western' equivalent of a shogunate? A soldierate? Knights Council?

A military dictatorship.

Knights are nobility. Knights that form the ruling council of a country would probably not be called knights. They'd be more powerful lords, and they'd most likely have more prestigious titles -- dukes or princes most likely, though possibly barons or counts or something else entirely depending on the region's history (the status and power of peerage titles varied pretty widely throughout Europe).

Soniacracy, a rule by musicians, with the complexity and quality of their songs coming to be a viable claim to authority. However, due to the tastes in music, this has lead to several fiefdoms which are dominated by a few genres of music.

I could see this happening to a race of magically inclined isolationists with nothing better to do

Hope you don't mind if I steal it

Discworld's Ankh Morpork, while not a kleptocracy as such, is notable for it's legalisation of theft, with a thieve guild that operates openly and is responsible for regulation of unlicensed theft.

Some Italian explorers explained how the Shogunate and Imperial family functioned by comparing the Shogun to the Holy Roman Emperor, and the emperor to the papacy.

Why does Trump, the largest candidate, not simply eat the other six?

Adventure time's city of thieves:
youtube.com/watch?v=YVxq8vw1BdA

He would find it difficult to subdue his prey, due to his malleable body composition.

I've always wondered what a country would be like where, instead of electing a president or parliamentary members, they elected Supreme Court justices.

Anyway, if you're into worldbuilding, here's a list of real-world government types.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_forms_of_government

>Timocracy fantasy society
>The most honourable and well know heroes of the land make the rules, and the only way to be bumped off as the one in charge is even greater acts of heroics and humble charity.

Like if batman was president.

I always imagined it to be something like a military republic, where the right to vote is reserved to those who have served and the leaders tend to be military leaders who have achieved great fame. Kind of like how Scipio Africanus became consul because he pushed Carthage's shit in during his Spanish campaign, despite being both too young and not having fulfilled the prequisite offices.

Nah its higher than thst, its knowing when not to do war.

How does one measure honor then, if not through military means?

A government which actually resembles a historical government in any way, shape, or form

>Not understanding that the presence of magic fundamentally changes the nature of politics
Do you think the French Revolution would've happened if the nobility could shoot lasers out of their dicks?

Oh you can fight wars, as long as you feed PoW, treat enemy wounded and bury their dead.

>Russia
nice projection

>projection

>Columnaevirumocracy
Don't think I don't know what you did there

Niggaopolis

Negrocracy
Chinkocracy
Goukocracy
Keunucracy
Diehardocracy

Scumarchy
Pornocracy
Shlongarchy
Burritocracy

>if the nobility could shoot lasers out of their dicks?
whats the little guillotine for?

>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_forms_of_government

That's a really neat little page.

I would imagine this to be the predecessor to places like the city in Black Lagoon where it's just a city ruled entirely by various criminal organizations who maintain a mutual meeting spot that they all have a stake in.

There's a large kingdom in my campaign that's I guess a galeaocracy? It's ruled by the Helmet of Law.

>kingdom used to be seventeen city-states
>constantly at war with one another, plus threatened constantly by larger and more cohesive neighboring states
>city-states have managed to pull together under certain charismatic leaders in the past, but it always collapses as soon as the strongman dies
>greatest wizards of each city see that their lands are doomed to a permanent state of violence if something isn't done
>meet in secret, come up with plan
>will use epic ritual to transfer their combined magical powers into a single item - a magical helm
>whoever wears the helm will essentially have the combined power of 17 high-level wizards, which is certainly enough to unite a country
>and when they die, someone else can just take up the helm, so that there can be uninterrupted unity across generations
>don't want the helm to fall into the wrong hands, better make it intelligent so that it can chose someone worthy of wearing it
>all goes according to plan
>except helmet decides "fuck your choosing, how about I just take direct control?"
>murders all the wizards, conquers kingdom in storm of summoned monsters, arcane fire, and general murderosity
>the Helm of Law has now ruled over a populace too terrified to even think of rebelling for 700 years

Actual medieval governments.

Merchant Republics.
Oligarchic Republics.
Noble Republics.
Nomads.
Tribal Councils.

Nonsense. The centipede is a predator.

Chadocracy Rule by the pinnacle of human existance

>Cratocracy
Rule by rulers
>Gladiocracy
Rule by (the people who find) neat swords, presumably in ponds

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayor_of_the_Palace
A Majordomo-erate? I mean, they eventually just got power themselves.

Xenocracy.

The people realise they are all complete shitters who are completely incapable of ruling themselves effectively. So they outsource for their leaders.

Pretty sure that necrocracy was in one of MtG's many worlds.

The closest thing I can think of is the Orzhov Syndicate on Ravnica, headed by the Obzedat, a council of ghosts. Probably also most things that pass for government on Grixis, too, but basically by default due to practically everything being undead. Certainly there are some other rulers who are undead of varying description, but it seems like they tend to be situations where a dead person happens to be the monarch, not a systematic thing where the rulers are always the dead. For example, after the ghost king Brago of Fiora bought the farm for real, a bunch of living folk fought over his throne.

Chad is a republic tho?

>Dodecakirinocracy
I understood that reference.

Donknowcracy Nobody knows who is ruling and what

>othergovernments for the otherkin

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>Donknowcracy
Isn't that a country where the rulers must donk all the time ?

youtu.be/nhTAJYpIkHU

>Crassusocracy
Isn't this how Hill Giant tribes are run in D&D? They're obviously not formal governments, and it's got a religious element to it, but the idea is that the fattest is considered to be most resembling of their god, and most fit to rule iirc.

Irkenocracy ( Rule by the tallest, in reality its a machine dictatorship )

Yep, it's called the ordnung of gluttony; If you're the fattest that's clearly because you know how to get the most food and that's all hill giants want from life.

>Russia

Brevocracy: rule of the manlets.
Citocracy: rule of the fastest.
Aesthocracy: rule of artists.
Gymnocracy: rule of athletes.
Cuckocracy: rule of cucks.
Infantocracy: rule of children.
Anonocracy: rule of the nameless.

>Crassusocracy

Even the fattest are not above the law!

>Anonocracy
>Legislation is voted on by starting a polling thread on /pol/
>The constitution is adjusted to outlaw Jews
>Not the Jewish religion or "Jewish tricks", just Jews in general
>Holding any left wing beliefs is awarded by "free helicopter rides"
>The national anthem becomes "/pol/ was right again"
>All black people are deported to Sweden

He only eats meat that's been cooked well-done. Simply grabbing his opponents and cannibalizing them during the debates wouldn't suit his tastes.

Kakistocracy (rule by the most evil members of a society)

This is kewl. Does the Helm have a body (undead/golem/arcane/elemental/possessed person/whatever) it controls like a doll to move and rule with a more "human" form?

I believe that there are also some in the real world. North Korea is definitely one.

I am working on an Anonocracy in my setting.
The people all vote for their choice of ruler. The 3 candidates with the most votes are brought forth and made to wear masks and cloaks to hide their identity until the next election. Only the one with the most votes actually rules and the others acts as bodyguards. It's so the people don't get upset their candidate didn't win and complain about their every choice based upon their butthurt. the city was originally 3 large cities that grew too big and merged into one mega city. Which meant forcing to merge their governments. (there was a time of chaos in the early days where 3 leaders were at once arguing over which parts of the city belonged to whom and some people were paying taxes twice in some cases). It's 3 cloaked anonymous leaders of an electoral college(college members are voted in by citizens) I think I want the twist to be that the 1 who actually puts on the true governing mask merges all 3 of them into one body, the cloak hides the physical disfigurement of the merging of 3 bodies into one and the other two cloaked figures are legit body guards/doubles.

why make it disfigurement, why not just have the merge be psychic and then when it ends they turn back into themselves?
wouldn't it be suspicious after the term ends that none of the three return to their normal lives?