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Douglas_Knight comments on Orwell and fictional evidence for dictatorship stability - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 12 June 2013 10:07:25PM 0 points [-]

The Roman Empire should probably be classified as a dictatorship, but it didn't have 200 years without succession violence. The "Five Good Empires" period lasted 100 years, though.

Maybe the Vatican should count as a dictatorship. It has had succession violence, but probably less often than England. But maybe it is too decentralized to count.