Anonymous asked:

Do you truly think anyone is going to buy your nationalist hogwash? You blithering buffon, the dual monachy will never succumb to such seditious sentiment! AEIOU!

mitigatedchaos answered:

A monarch is nothing more than the crown jewel worn by the State.

Dual Monachy?  I’ve got anons inventing entirely new forms of government right here in my askbox.

[thathopeyetlives]

It is not even slightly new, and I am a little bit surprised that I did not write this ask. 

In the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the ruler was Emperor of Austria (and all their Central and Eastern European vassals and the Balkans and everything) and at the same time the King of Hungary. These two positions were considered to be fairly independent from each other, and is why so much Austro-Hungarian stuff is “Royal and Imperial” (“kaiserliche und koenigliche”). 

What finally broke up the Austro-Hungarian Empire (besides “WWII”) was ethnic nationalism, with the Emperors never really managing to come up with a monarchical or civic nationalism as happened to some degree in Germany. Today, few people would propose that all of those countries should be under the same leadership, especially as anything other than a somewhat loose confederation. 

[mitigatedchaos]

Your brain autocorrected.  The italicized portion was missing an r, and thus not “Monarchy” but “Monachy”.