And what about governments?

[Emp_Palpatine]

Well, a thing that I enjoyed much in Victoria was politics, but it had some shortcomings. Here is a few thoughts for Vicky2.

- Anarcho-Liberal definitely need a new name. There had been countless confused post in Vicky boards, asking for what they stand for, what they exactly are, etc...
As they are extreme-liberal, sort of guillotine addicts Jacobines, a name like "revolutionnary liberals" would be far better. I know it's hard to name them properly, but anarcho-liberal did provoke so much confusion: "come on... they are anarchists and liberal? How come they transform the state into a dictatorship" etc...

- More deep in governments forms!
Here's how things could be organized, if the engine can handle it: between representative and un-representative regimes.
I mean, in Vicky, we had democracy, and the other ones. For instance, ConMon had de facto a malus regarding immigration whereas life there is politicaly as free as in a constitutionnal republic...
We could have:

-Un-representative governements:
Monarchy, basically as in Vicky 1

Military Republic/Republican Dictatorship. (South-American juntas; Louis-Napoleon "consulate" (between 1851 and 1852))

- Constitutionnal governments:

Constitutionnal monarchy

Constitutionnal republic

-Totalitarian or proto-totalitarian states:

Revolutionnary republic (hello anarcho-liberals!) that could evolve over time towards a republican dictaroship or constitutionnal governement.

Proletarian dictatorship

Fascist dictatorship

These ones would need events to survive, simulating terror and other purges.

We could aslo have some in-between constitutionnal and un-representative:
Limited Monarchy/authoritarian constitutionnal monarchy (like IInd Reich; well you got the picture the mid-step between Ancien Régime and British con-mon)
The same with republic: authoritarian democrats or thing like that, step between dictarorship or revolutionnary republic towards (or from) constitutionnal republic.

 

[Orinsul]

there have been many threads and even megathreads too on this. Look first and you'll see this has already been argued and dismissed.

 

[Emp_Palpatine]

My bad, haven't seen the said threads.

 

[Orinsul]

As for Anarcho-Liberal if you use just a pinch of common sense and take even a second to think about it you will see that it is extreme liberal and the name is fine as it is GENERIC, its part of a pattern, centre-right=Conservative, radical-right=Reactionary, centre-left=Liberal, radical-left=Anarcho-Liberal. the same with the socialist ideologies.
As it covers the whole world and time frame it must be generic so dont get caught up on the name it works. And they are not jacobites either in fact they would violent oppose all the jacobites tried to achieve, think those who wish to minimalise government to give absolute freedom to business, effectively making it so that the nation is ruled by private corporations NOT by the government. Anarcho-Liberal, no government just business, a dictatorship without parties, rule of money alone.
not a perfect description but it works.