The Belarus one is, well, wishful thinking. Lukashenko doesn’t go away if we pretend he doesn’t exist.
weird. I don’t see Kaczyński and Ziobro in Poland..
Very nice! I enjoyed reading through it!
Rarely these types of summaries get the Swiss collegiate governmental system right, well done.
I don’t agree with the category of other sovereign states though, that implies a certain international recognition.
Did not know Kazakhstan was considered a European country.
WTF is going on in Andorra? “Unitary parliamentary constitutional semi-theocratic elective diarchy” ? That’s an interesting world salad.
How is Belgorod people republic already a thing?
Belgorod people’s Republic is my favorite
Every UN state, including with Putin and Lukashenko, has at least two faces.
And then there’s Erdogan.
why “Grand Duke” but for others just “Monarch”? just write King or Queen or Prince; other than that it’s pretty nice
Just a minor nitpick for future reference: you may want to reconsider those thousands separators, especially since it’s an English-language graphic. Using periods can lead to confusion there.
In the Anglosphere *commas* are common for that, but I’d personally favor the international standard: simple little spaces.
How many are unelected? There’s at least one that has both an unelected PM and an unelected monarch.
>Population – 41,18 million
Since when? From what I remember it was lower than 38 million.
What does the German guy do in the Bosnian government?
Andorra wanted to be different and I respect it
This image is another proof that Pavel is the hottest dude in any European government. God bless his beauty.
I know that you’re just going off on the party platforms or Wikipedia but the left green movement in Iceland isn’t really socialist anymore (not really sure if they ever were), green would be a more appropriate appropriate colour for Katrín Jakobsdóttir
Spain is wrong.
We don’t have a First Minister, but a President. The monarch title is called Head of State.
Although I am not Swiss I had some contact with Swiss politics in my job and let me tell you the democracy of Switzerland is wild.
There is no official capital, Bern is “Bundesstadt” (federal city) but shares many gov institutions with Zürich, Genf etc.
There is no head of state but a 7 member council that leads the government. The head of the council rotates regularly from member to member.
They don’t even have a proper fixed person to send abroad as a representative (not talking about ambassadors but how other countries send their prime minister or president abroad).
There are still in-person referenda where people meet in Cantons (states) and they just decide shit. Plus many important things are actually decided in country wide plebiscites.
Also women couldn’t vote until the 70s.
Very cool
Love these posts!
This is a great post, awesome job OP!
Bosnia is always weird to see: having three presidents nominally representing three constituent ethnic groups that created a country back in 1943 – Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats – though in reality elected only by Bosniaks and Serbs; yet overseen by a German with almost absolutist powers limited only by a really vague document.
Also, about Croatia – it is absolutely correct to label the President as independent, however that lacks a bit of important context: person holding the position of the President of the Republic is by Constitution forbidden from being a member of a political party, so usually they formally leave their political parties prior to the assumption to the office. So our current president (just like every other before him, except the first one) is technically and formaly independent since the law says he has to be, but in reality he used a party structure and finances to win the elections and he is very much a proponent of the Social-democrat Party, just like the one before him was of the Croatian Democratic Union.
Like I said – it’s technically correct to say that he is independent, but it’s more of a legal formality than being a trully independent candidate. The current one actually used to be a party leader of SDP for several years and a PM in their last government.
Recognized by 0 UN Members, how the hell is Priednestrovia a sovereign state if it can’t have any interaction with other sovereign states? Even the state that is in charge of its puppet government doesn’t recognize it… it depends on Moldova to do any external trades.
Kazakhstan??
No scotland or Wales despite the other random areas here? (yes I know it’s all under the UK, but still… Maybe not for long)
Good effort, but I don’t know where you got the May 2022 date for Ciuca, he has been PM since November 2021. Now, he is set to resign next week (as the gov. is a rotation grand coalition with S&D – affiliated Marcel Ciolacu set to take over), so I think you can wait till then to change it anyways
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Why are the Netherlands singled out?
The Belarus one is, well, wishful thinking. Lukashenko doesn’t go away if we pretend he doesn’t exist.
weird. I don’t see Kaczyński and Ziobro in Poland..
Very nice! I enjoyed reading through it!
Rarely these types of summaries get the Swiss collegiate governmental system right, well done.
I don’t agree with the category of other sovereign states though, that implies a certain international recognition.
Did not know Kazakhstan was considered a European country.
WTF is going on in Andorra? “Unitary parliamentary constitutional semi-theocratic elective diarchy” ? That’s an interesting world salad.
How is Belgorod people republic already a thing?
Belgorod people’s Republic is my favorite
Every UN state, including with Putin and Lukashenko, has at least two faces.
And then there’s Erdogan.
why “Grand Duke” but for others just “Monarch”? just write King or Queen or Prince; other than that it’s pretty nice
Just a minor nitpick for future reference: you may want to reconsider those thousands separators, especially since it’s an English-language graphic. Using periods can lead to confusion there.
In the Anglosphere *commas* are common for that, but I’d personally favor the international standard: simple little spaces.
How many are unelected? There’s at least one that has both an unelected PM and an unelected monarch.
>Population – 41,18 million
Since when? From what I remember it was lower than 38 million.
What does the German guy do in the Bosnian government?
Andorra wanted to be different and I respect it
This image is another proof that Pavel is the hottest dude in any European government. God bless his beauty.
I know that you’re just going off on the party platforms or Wikipedia but the left green movement in Iceland isn’t really socialist anymore (not really sure if they ever were), green would be a more appropriate appropriate colour for Katrín Jakobsdóttir
Spain is wrong.
We don’t have a First Minister, but a President. The monarch title is called Head of State.
Although I am not Swiss I had some contact with Swiss politics in my job and let me tell you the democracy of Switzerland is wild.
There is no official capital, Bern is “Bundesstadt” (federal city) but shares many gov institutions with Zürich, Genf etc.
There is no head of state but a 7 member council that leads the government. The head of the council rotates regularly from member to member.
They don’t even have a proper fixed person to send abroad as a representative (not talking about ambassadors but how other countries send their prime minister or president abroad).
There are still in-person referenda where people meet in Cantons (states) and they just decide shit. Plus many important things are actually decided in country wide plebiscites.
Also women couldn’t vote until the 70s.
Very cool
Love these posts!
This is a great post, awesome job OP!
Bosnia is always weird to see: having three presidents nominally representing three constituent ethnic groups that created a country back in 1943 – Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats – though in reality elected only by Bosniaks and Serbs; yet overseen by a German with almost absolutist powers limited only by a really vague document.
Also, about Croatia – it is absolutely correct to label the President as independent, however that lacks a bit of important context: person holding the position of the President of the Republic is by Constitution forbidden from being a member of a political party, so usually they formally leave their political parties prior to the assumption to the office. So our current president (just like every other before him, except the first one) is technically and formaly independent since the law says he has to be, but in reality he used a party structure and finances to win the elections and he is very much a proponent of the Social-democrat Party, just like the one before him was of the Croatian Democratic Union.
Like I said – it’s technically correct to say that he is independent, but it’s more of a legal formality than being a trully independent candidate. The current one actually used to be a party leader of SDP for several years and a PM in their last government.
Recognized by 0 UN Members, how the hell is Priednestrovia a sovereign state if it can’t have any interaction with other sovereign states? Even the state that is in charge of its puppet government doesn’t recognize it… it depends on Moldova to do any external trades.
Kazakhstan??
No scotland or Wales despite the other random areas here? (yes I know it’s all under the UK, but still… Maybe not for long)
Good effort, but I don’t know where you got the May 2022 date for Ciuca, he has been PM since November 2021. Now, he is set to resign next week (as the gov. is a rotation grand coalition with S&D – affiliated Marcel Ciolacu set to take over), so I think you can wait till then to change it anyways