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32 Post author: Academian 05 November 2012 01:02AM

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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 06 November 2012 08:55:15AM 1 point [-]

Why wait until we live under a monarchy to start practicing for Ideological Turing Test tournaments? Let's start now: According to the CIA World Factbook, the forms of government of the three countries with the greatest GDP per capita (PPP) are a hereditary constitutional monarchy, an emirate, and a constitutional monarchy. Wait a minute...that was a little too easy.

Comment author: Khoth 06 November 2012 01:05:06PM 5 points [-]

It would be a better argument if it didn't rely on people not knowing what a constitutional monarchy is.

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 06 November 2012 01:41:05PM *  0 points [-]

It would be a better argument if it didn't rely on people not knowing what a constitutional monarchy is.

Good point. While the CIA is technically correct in referring to Luxembourg as a constitutional monarchy, it also has a large democratic component, making the description somewhat misleading.