User blog comment:Scrawland Scribblescratch/From Louis XIV to Palpatine: Absolute Leadership/@comment-32656-20120914043839/@comment-4727448-20120916041425

I wouldn't call North Korea an absolute monarchy, because it is absolute and somewhat heriditary, but most definitely not a moanrchy. The Vatican? The Vatican, I say, is the same as North Korea--absolute, but not a monarchy. More like a selective absolutism. The others I would call absolute monarchies in one form or another.