Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Catching up + Some thoughts - comments sought

[Pedro Timoteo <deh@xxxxx>]

Per Mathisen wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Alexandre BERAUD wrote:
> > In all Civ games, governments have always been "ideal" governments.
> 
> To the contrary, my impression is that they have always been based on
> historical governments. So you have Repulic modelled after the early
> french and american revolutionary governments, democracy after the modern
> western democracy, and communism after USSR. You can see this in
> everything from implementation to (trivially) officials pictures and ruler
> names.

Actually, I think that, in "Civ terms", current western countries are still
Republics. I seem to remember that the Civilopedia of Civ 1 said something
like "no true Democracy has ever existed, except maybe in Ancient Greece".
But then I may be wrong.
:)