Government types

Each independent country has one of in total 7 Government types. There are three monarchical government forms with varying degrees of democratic election, a democratic republic and four types of dictatorship, each defined by its own ideology. The government type of a country is one of the most important descriptors of any given nation, as it decide many factors, some of the most important being: holding elections in country, ability for monarch to appoint ruling party and limiting ideologies of possible ruling parties. Fascist Dictatorship and Proletariat Dictatorship get special Casus bellis to spread their ideologies to other countries. Various governments can change nations' names and colors, and each tag has a different flag for each government type (one for monarchies, one for democracies and presidential/bourgeois dictatorships, one for proletarian dictatorships, and one for fascist dictatorships). Change of government type can be achieved by political reforms (mainly Vote Franchise), events, decisions, or successful rebel uprisings.

All uncivilized nations (except Liberia) are absolute monarchies at the start of the game. Since Political reforms can't be enacted before westernizing, it is not possible to change the government form of an uncivilized country outside of revolutions or the export ideology casus belli.

Comparison of government types

Name	Parties allowed	Can appoint ruling party	Elections	Political reforms	Social reforms	Rebels forcing this government
Absolute Monarchy	Liberal, Conservative, Reactionary	Yes	No	Depends on Upper House	Depends on Upper House	Reactionaries when HM's Government, Presidential Dictatorship or Prussian Constitutionalism, Carlists as Spain
Prussian Constitutionalism	Liberal, Conservative, Reactionary, Socialist	Yes	Yes	Depends on Upper House	Depends on Upper House	None
HM's Government	All	Yes	Yes	Depends on Upper House	Depends on Upper House	Jacobins when Prussian Constitutionalism or Absolute Monarchy
Democracy	All	No	Yes	Depends on Upper House	Depends on Upper House	Jacobins when HM's Government or any Dictatorship
Presidential Dictatorship	Reactionary	Yes	No	Revoke	Revoke	Reactionaries in civilized nations with Absolute Monarchy, Democracy, Communist, Fascist or Bourgeois Dictatorship
Proletariat Dictatorship	Communist	Yes	No	Revoke	Enact	Communists
Bourgeois Dictatorship	Anarcho-Liberal	Yes	No	Not possible to change	Revoke	Anarcho-liberals
Fascist Dictatorship	Fascist	Yes	No	Enact and revoke	Enact and revoke	Fascists

Name	Peaceful formation conditions	Notes
Absolute Monarchy	Another monarchy. No elections allowed. Ruling party not fascist, anarcho-liberal or communist.
Prussian Constitutionalism	Absolute Monarchy. Elections allowed.
HM's Government	Prussian Constitutionalism. Non-Secret or Secret Ballots.
Democracy	Any dictatorship. Elections allowed, not Underground parties, and upper house not ruling party only.	Greatly increased immigrant attraction.
Presidential Dictatorship	Not Absolute Monarchy or another dictatorship. No elections, underground parties, ruling party only in upper house. Ruling Party is Reactionary. OR: Democracy, no elections, ruling party is conservative or reactionary.
Proletariat Dictatorship	Not Absolute Monarchy or another dictatorship. No elections, underground parties, ruling party only in upper house. Ruling Party is Communist. OR: Democracy, no elections, ruling party is socialist or communist.	Gets special casus belli to install communist governments.
Bourgeois Dictatorship	Not Absolute Monarchy or another dictatorship. No elections, underground parties, ruling party only in upper house. Ruling Party is Anarcho-Liberal. OR: Democracy, no elections, ruling party is liberal or anarcho-liberal.
Fascist Dictatorship	Not Absolute Monarchy or another dictatorship. No elections, underground parties, ruling party only in upper house. Ruling Party is Fascist. OR: Democracy, no elections, ruling party is fascist.	Gets special casus belli to install fascist governments.