[jbcohen]

As I read sci-fi and some fantasy books I am struck by the number of fictional societies that are headed by a King or Queen. There appears to be very few fictional societies that are headed by a democratic or other form of government. The only one that comes to mind is David Weber's Republic of Haven, which was headed by the Committe of Public Safety when it was the Poples's Republic and later it was headed by an elected president. I can't think of other societies that were headed by anything other than a monarch. I guess this is becuase a monarch society is easier to think about, it does not take much personel to implement them, a monarch a perhaps a chaimberland. Easy to implement, the demoratic societies are harder to implement.