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Aliens Never Invented Democracy	comment	A Sub-Trope of Humans Are Special, in some works of fiction it seems that Humanity is the only civilization in the Universe that ever thought it was a good idea to choose leaders by voting. Sometimes this is done because the writer wants to make the aliens truly alien in culture, thus having weird, even sometimes incomprehensible, political systems is a way. Due to Hollywood and Creators Culture Carryovers, an absolute monarchy or dictatorship is foreign to most western pop culture, while not having to come up with truly non-human systems since Most Writers Are Human. In some works it could be a way to present humanity's nice democratic system vs the aliens' evil Empire, which is very common when The Federation faces The Empire. (This is especially common in works made during the Cold War for obvious reasons.) Sometimes is just a matter of Planet of Hats: some writers just can't think that a Proud Warrior Race can be democratic (despite the fact that we have many examples in our own world) because, well warriors are not democrats, also in scenarios of Alien Invasion, having the invaders enjoying a democracy would feel kind of contradictory (despite, again, many examples in our history where democratic republics held vast, cruel empires and subjugated other peoples without considering this a contradiction). Compare with Aliens Never Invented the Wheel for the technical counterpart. See also Feudal Future for when the humans don't have democracy any more either. Often overlaps with One-Federation Limit, with humans as the one democratic government.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_14d341dc	comment	Star Trek Online: Generally avoided with factions original to the game. The playable Romulan faction is the Romulan Republic, a successor state to the vestigial Star Empire. The Lukari and Kentari also have democratic societies (the Lukari are similar to the Federation, while the Kentari are a fairly transparent Strawman Political of the present-day United States, complete with a Donald Trump stand-in for defense minister). The Iconians, however, are an ethnocracy very similar to the Dominion: a small circle of all-powerful rulers of one species, and several servitor species.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_15c19ef2	comment	In Planet of the Apes, the world seems to be a Fantastic Caste System, with the gorillas, the orangutans, and the chimpanzees being roughly analogous to the aristocracy, the clergy, and the intellectuals, respectively. Subverted in that we're told that there is no law enforcing this, and any ape can go into any field he chooses: in practice, however, very few of them ever buck the trend.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_15c6ea11	comment	Wonder Woman (1942): During the Golden Age Diana encountered dozens of extraterrestrial civilizations, all of which were ruled by kings, queens or emperors.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_19350db9	comment	Among the standard races of Master of Orion 2 only humans have democratic government. All other races are ruled by dictators, by feudal lords or have hive mind.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_1a12bbee	comment	In The Mighty Thor, Asgard has an absolute monarchy. Ditto for Olympus and most of the Earth's other pantheons.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_1bf2b0de	comment	The Orion Syndicate is The Mafia at the Galactic level, dedicated to all sorts of organized crime including slave trade and prostitution.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_1cc8e29f	comment	Destiny: The Fallen are a horde of pirates led by warlords called Kells, who rule with absolute authority. However, they were driven to this state by scarcity and desperation following a Homeworld Evacuation. Back then, in their golden age of peace and prosperity, they were... still ruled by Kells with absolute authority. They just used to be more benevolent. The Cabal have been ruled by emperors for almost their entire recorded history, even in times of peace. The one time we know of that they weren't, they were instead ruled by a "military aristocracy" called the Praetorate. Which was then overthrown and replaced by another emperor. Who was himself overthrown and replaced with a Dominus, a kind of military dictator with all the powers of an emperor, who has since died and been replaced by an Empress. The Hive have a Hive Caste System and a society based on Might Makes Right. They specifically despise things like "democracy" and "charity" as sources of weakness in a civilization. Even before they became the ruthless Hive, they were ruled by kings. The concept of "government" does not apply to the Vex, who are The Virus by way of a robot army. They split the difference between Hive Mind and Mind Hive by being united in a collective mind in which every individual unit thinks the same way.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_213274af	comment	The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Relaunch novel Andor: Paradigm reveals that the name of the Andorian Empire is actually an Artifact Title. The last Empress deliberately died childless in the 19th century AD after establishing a parliamentary state.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_2250e67e	comment	Even before the existence of the Federation, Star Trek: Enterprise shows that the other founding members apart from humans were not that democratic; Vulcans were lead by the Vulcan High Command, essentially a Military junta, the Andorians were pretty militaristic and their state was described as the Andorian Empire.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: In the "Treehouse of Horror VII" segment "Citizen Kang", aliens kidnap Homer and ask him to Take Me to Your Leader. Homer quickly agrees, but then he changes his mind because he just remembered they are about to have an election between then-President Bill Clinton and Senator Bob Dole, so Homer doesn't know what to tell them. The aliens Kang and Kodos are apparently familiar with the concept of an election, having monitored human activity for years, but when they kidnap Clinton and Dole and impersonate them, their campaign styles make it clear that they have no direct experience with elections. Once Kang is elected, he enslaves the human population and converts the United States into a dictatorial monarchy.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_27b6ca57	comment	The atevi from Foreigner (1994) cannot conceive of any other form of governance than monarchy.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_28508de	comment	Winx Club: It seems like most, if not all, of the civilizations outside of Earth are ruled by monarchies, due to needing to justify the Princess Protagonists. This is a Downplayed example, however, since the Magic Dimension is shown to be a modern, if not advanced, society and aside from the royals and the occasional arranged marriages here and there, the monarchies don't really share the attributes of true feudal systems.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_2acb12c5	comment	X: The Argon (a Lost Colony of humans) are the only explicitly representative government among the major factions, giving a senator to every inhabited planet, moon, or space station in their territory. The rest are the Boron (The Good Kingdom), the Split (The Empire), the Paranids (The Theocracy), and the Teladi (Corporatocracy). It's unclear what form the Terran government takes.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_3b11106f	comment	Flash Gordon (1980): As in the classic serials, Mongo is an absolute monarchy run by the mad emperor Ming the Merciless. The nations under his rule seem similarly monarchical, with the Arboreans and the Hawkmen both being governed by a "prince" who is in turn answerable to Ming.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_3be307d1	comment	In Tenchi Muyo!, Jurai is a feudal monarchy similar to old Japan.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_4a6ef2c5	comment	The Gamilons in Star Blazers are unabashedly fascist, led by Leader Desslok (in German, "fuhrer" literally means "leader.") The Comet Empire seems to be a more conventional monarchy, led by a Prince whose daughter is a Princess. Expanded Universe material (both the Comico comic book series and the Tim Eldred webcomic) picks up on the implication that Prince Zordar would probably have an even more powerful father or mother out there.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_52cd1288	comment	Emperor Ming from the Flash Gordon universe rules not only his homeworld of Mongo, but subjugates several neighboring worlds as well, organized roughly like fiefdoms. Ming shrewdly encourages these worlds to fight among themselves to curry his favor, as it weakens their defenses and confounds efforts to overthrow him.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_5562da6a	comment	3rd Rock from the Sun: The Universe is ruled by the Big Giant Head, an absolute monarch.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_571a5bd7	comment	The GoBots do not fall under this trope, though. The Guardians have a democracy. One prominent character, Zeemon, is explicitly a politician.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_589aa399	comment	The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!: A recurring character is Princess Voluptua, the butterfly-like heir to an empire centering around the neighboring brown dwarf of Nemesis and viceroy of our solar system (Earth is a nature preserve). They do apparently have a parliament, though. And the dragons (one of their subject races) have a legislature called the Althing.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_68237790	comment	Pathfinder: There are relatively few nonhuman-ruled nations on Golarion, and none are democracies. Elven Kyonin and the dwarven city-states in the Five Kings Mountains and elsewhere are monarchies (with the dwarf kings forming a larger alliance), while the orc lands of the Hold of Belkzen are an amorphous association of tribes that run on Asskicking Leads to Leadership. To be fair, however, there aren't many human democracies either, the only notable ones being Andoren (a staunchly anti-slavery parliamentary republic based on an idealized vision of the United States), Galt (effective mob rule, inspired by France at the height of the Terror), and Nirmathas (loose confederation of woodland settlements). The Kellid barbarians also elect their clan leaders by acclamation.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_6e1d5f36	comment	Farscape: The Peacekeepers are under a military dictatorship so ingrained that practically in their society Army equals State. Partially averted in that they are Transplanted Humans. The Scarran Empire is ruled by an absolute monarch. The Nebari Establishment is an Orwellian totalitarian nightmare. The Hinerian Empire is another absolute monarchy.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1: Between the collapse of the Goa'uld Empire and the Ori invasion, the Free Jaffa attempt to establish a nation of their own. Early on, there's a conflict between Teal'c, one of the main cast members and pro-democracy, and Gerak, who favors representation based on military strength. Gerak later has to make a Heroic Sacrifice to end the Ori plague on Earth, and Teal'c and Bra'tac push the Free Jaffa Nation back to traditional representative democracy. The Goa'uld themselves are a blend of monarchy, feudalism, and theocracy. Their supreme authorities are System Lords who rule over individual domains: their human, Unas, and Jaffa slaves worship them as gods, while their other Goa'uld underlings obey them as kings. Earth's offworld allies the Tok'ra, the Tollan, and the Asgard are somewhat unclear. They're all ruled by some form of a high council and do generally seem to have laws they follow, in contrast to the System Lords' my-word-is-law attitude. However, there's no word on how the leaders of these councils are selected.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_73d7930f	comment	The Cardassian Union is a military dictatorship with a merely symbolic civil government. It has similarities with both Fascist and Communist regimes. In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Way of the Warrior", a popular uprising overthrows the military government and restores power to the Detapa Council. Later the Dominion invades Cardassia and overthrows this government to install Gul Dukat as their puppet dictator. Democratic rule is restored after the Dominion defeat in the ensuing war.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_755b343f	comment	Halo: As an authoritarian, caste-based theocracy led by a race of technocratic cultists (the Prophets/San'Shyuum), the Covenant as a whole is very much not a democracy, and the same applies to the internal organization of most of its subordinate species: The Elites/Sangheili are organized into a large number of feudal states. The Brutes/Jiralhanae are divided into packs that operate on the principle of Might Makes Right. The Drones/Yanme'e live in eusocial societies ruled by queens. Because of how oppressed they are by the other species, the Grunts/Unggoy lack any independent government structure larger than small matriarchal tribes. Played with by the Kig-Yar (aka Jackals and Skirmishers); they may not have much in the way of formal democracy, but that's because they don't really have any form of effective central government beyond what outsiders try to impose on them, and their internal affairs are basically determined by matriarchal mob rule. Possibly averted by the Lekgolo (the worms that make up Hunter colonies, among other gestalts), who are implied to have a relatively egalitarian social structure.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_77677ed1	comment	In Sword of the Stars none of the non-human factions are democratic. And it's unclear if SolForce itself allows much democracy. The Tarka Imperium is an oligarchic monarchy with a caste system stratifying its society. To be more specific, the oligarchic system effectively comprises three different forces: The Nine Emperors, who govern separate polities; the Supreme Commander that heads the military caste; and the police caste, who have a strong rivalry with the military caste, and whose support any strong emperor or supreme commander needs to have. The Hivers are semi-feudal, divided into clans founded by "Princesses" spawned by the Queen. The Liir are a gerontocracy. The Zuul have a chaotic hierarchy held together by psionic domination. The Morrigi are tribal, with females holding land planetside and males living as stellar nomads.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect: The Salarian Union have a decentralized feudal matriarchy. The Turian Hierarchy is a hierarchial meritocracy with a strong military culture. It is noted in-universe to have potential for great misuse, but this is apparently mitigated by the strong values of civic duty and responsibility that permeates Turian culture. With the Krogan their tribal society is built entirely upon Asskicking Leads to Leadership. You want your voice heard when the leader is being stubborn? Either impress the leader with your strength enough that he concedes the point, or force him out of power and take the reins yourself. The Quarian Migrant Fleet is under perpetual martial law, but each ship has an elected council that sends representatives to the Conclave. Subverted with the Asari Republics, who have an absolute direct democracy facilitated by the Extranet. Also subverted with the angara, who have a representative democracy with very strict term limits.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_7c62163	comment	In Project Hail Mary, Eridians don't have democracy or anything even resembling what humans would call a government. They just sort of get together and "strum", almost as a Hive Mind, and come to a consensus that way.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_810b7744	comment	In Glory Road, Earth is an isolated backward planet. An interstellar anthropologist specializing in the place hears that the hero, Oscar, is from the U.S. and asks him if their 'noble experiment' is still going on. Oscar, thinking he means Prohibition, says it's been abandoned. The anthropologist says it was a silly idea anyway and asks about their form of government now. Do they have a king? He meant democracy.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek didn't tend to flesh out the workings of alien cultures until Star Trek: The Next Generation. The human-led United Earth (in Star Trek: Enterprise) and United Federation of Planets (in the other series) is the only major democratic power in the known galaxy. The others are: The Klingon Empire: a feudal oligarchy with the heads of the noble houses comprising the High Council and choosing a Chancellor, an emperor in all but name. They use to have fully empowered Emperors who were successors of Kahless (their culture's Jesus) but the figure was abandoned some 200 years before the first series starts. A clone of Kahless was later named Emperor but with only decorative and religious functions. They are democratic in a way, in that any Klingon is technically able to become Chancellor, but unless one is the designated or arbitrated successor this generally requires killing one's predecessor in a duel after making him look dishonorable. An episode of Deep Space Nine references they did, briefly, practice democracy after a coup ousted the current emperor. It didn't last long, and Klingon history refers to it as "the Dark Time." Make of that what you will. The Romulan Star Empire is technically a parliamentary republic, with the praetor seemingly equivalent to a prime minister. However, it's also very much a Police State where the major state security agency, the Tal Shiar, wields significant political power: they station political officers on naval vessels, and at two separate points in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the vice-chair and chairman of the Tal Shiar also sit in the Senate. It's also unclear how the members of the parliament are selected. The Cardassian Union is a military dictatorship with a merely symbolic civil government. It has similarities with both Fascist and Communist regimes. In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Way of the Warrior", a popular uprising overthrows the military government and restores power to the Detapa Council. Later the Dominion invades Cardassia and overthrows this government to install Gul Dukat as their puppet dictator. Democratic rule is restored after the Dominion defeat in the ensuing war. The Tzenkethi Coalition: its leader is named the Autarch, you do the math. The Dominion: Officially a Theocracy with the Founders (who are considered gods by their subjects) at the top, in reality an Ethnocracy with a species ruling collectively over the others in its Empire. Surprisingly, this species on most days is not the Founders: they don't exert much day-to-day control over the Dominion's function, leaving that to their Vorta Servant Race. The Borg Collective isn't even really a government so much as a cybernetic botnet. The Borg Queen rules over billions of mindless collectivized drones. The Ferengi Alliance: a plutocratic autocracy led by the Grand Nagus (generally the richest and most politically influential of all Ferengi, or most able to make other Ferengi think he is). All the rest of the administration is basically Corporatocracy. Near the end of the series, they transition to a constitutional parliamentary system by establishing a "Congress of Economic Advisors" to pass laws, with the Grand Nagus now more like a president or prime minister. Bajor is technically a presidential republic with free elections to choose the First Minister once they got rid of the Cardassian occupation. However, the Kai (equivalent to a Pope or Dalai Lama) has excessive amounts of power and at one point Kai Winn takes over as interim First Minister after her predecessor dies in office shortly before the election (she's defeated by former Resistance leader Shakaar Edon and concedes peacefully). The Orion Syndicate is The Mafia at the Galactic level, dedicated to all sorts of organized crime including slave trade and prostitution. Even before the existence of the Federation, Star Trek: Enterprise shows that the other founding members apart from humans were not that democratic; Vulcans were lead by the Vulcan High Command, essentially a Military junta, the Andorians were pretty militaristic and their state was described as the Andorian Empire. And Kirk certainly encountered plenty of planets-of-the-week ruled by computers, often masquerading as gods. One episode, "The Cloud Minders" showed that Federation membership doesn't require a democratic government at the planetary level. However, another maintains that the Federation won't accept any planet which practices "caste-based discrimination".
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_a0ae1fb2	comment	John Carter: The Red Martian city-states of Zodanga and Helium are monarchies, while the Green Martians a.k.a. Tharks are a tribal clan structure whose choice of leaders are determined by Asskicking Leads to Leadership.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: Whilst the Earth government is essentially a carbon copy of the US presidential system, other species have various other forms of governemnt: The Decapodians are ruled by celibate priests (out of necessity, as everyone else dies after mating). The Amazonians are ruled by a female robot/computer. Brain Spawns seem to have some sort of collective Hive Mind. The Native Martians live under a tribal society led by a stereotypical Big Chief. Omicronians have an absolute monarchy. Niblonians are the parody of the Omniscient Council of Vagueness, but much cuter. The robot homeworld is run (incompetently) by a Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering. The post-cancellation episodes introduce the King of Space. Leela once sold him a castle.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_a40b1126	comment	Independence Day doesn't offer much detail about the society of the invading aliens. Independence Day: Resurgence goes further, establishing that the aliens are organized into hive minds ruled by queens.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_afc86b0a	comment	Ender's Game gives us the Buggers, insectoid and telepathic aliens organized into hive minds each ruled by a queen. The story clarifies, however, that from the Buggers' point of view, this isn't a system of government because the hive is viewed as a single being, not a group of people whose society needs to be organized: the queen is effectively the "brain" of this being, while the other individuals are analogized to fingers or toes. Note that once the queen dies, so does everybody in the hive — they have no minds of their own telling them to eat or drink or save themselves.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_b5a03cec	comment	The Robotech Masters rule their empire with iron fists, and most of the populace consists of clones (both Tirolian and Zentraedi) with no concept of free will. The Expanded Universe reveals that before the discovery of Protoculture, Tirol had been a Roman-style republic. The Invid, meanwhile, are ruled by the unhappily married Regent and Regis.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_b8b5c762	comment	The Jokka generally don't have much of a government, several houses bound more by contract than blood coexist in a city and generally handle their own affairs, until the rise of the autocratic Stone Moon Empire.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer40000: Downplayed. On the global scale, none of the major Xenos races are democratic: the Tyranids are a Hive Mind, the Orks and the Drukhari lack a centralised government altogether and are ruled by the strongest, the Necron Dynasties are a feudal monarchy, and the Aeldari Craftworlds and the T'au Empire are oligarchies (the former ruled by the psychic Seer Council, and the latter by the philosophizing Ethereal Caste). On the other hand, minor Xenos civilisations mentioned in the fluff are stated to be "republics", as are some members of the larger ones (such as the communist-themed Gretchin Revolutionary Committee). And, of course, 40k being what it is, humans in the setting are no paragons of liberty and democracy either. The Imperium of Man (not to mention the horrific Chaos-worshipping human societies) is often even more oppressive than most Xenos governments, with background fluff mentioning that even theorizing about democracy can get your planet subject to Exterminatus.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Not alien by standard definition, but the magical land of Equestria is ruled by two millennia-old, immortal monarchs with enough magic strength to move celestial bodies. All other species are likewise ruled by traditional monarchs. The only edge cases are the griffins, who had kings in the past but are now a failed state without an active government, and the dragons, whose absolute monarch is chosen through a competition in which any dragon can take part.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: The Time Lords, bless their double hearts, actually were a democracy, though the elections usually didn't amount to much because the Lord President's hand-picked successor almost always won. Then during the Time War, Rassilon got revived to lead them, and things went downhill. As Space Nazis, the Daleks are certainly not democratic. The Daleks are ruled either by a Supreme Dalek or by their creator Davros, depending on how favorable they're feeling towards Davros on any given week. He's been the cause of at least one civil war over whether they should obey him or not, but even at his lowest popularity dips, they can never quite bring themselves to kill him or let him die. Though "Asylum of the Daleks" reveals that the New Dalek Paradigm decided to govern themselves via a parliamentary democracy. They even have a Prime Minister! The Ice Warriors appear to have monarchs and nobility. The Sontarans have no civilian population. The entire race is an army.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_ccab7d59	comment	The State Tech Kino film Interplanetary Revolution from 1924 shows fearless Marxist cosmonauts landing on Mars, and overthrowing the Martian ruler, who sits still during the whole rhubarb looking displeased about this development. The implication is that hereditary monarchies (we are looking at you, Britain) do naught but pontificate and bellyache.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_d4263e4c	comment	The Takisians in Wild Cards practice especially skullduggerous medieval feudalism, with the noble families being selectively bred for superior psychic ability, scientific acumen, and physical beauty. Dr. Tachyon still doesn't get democracy after living among us for decades, not entirely seeing why elections are preferable to assassinations.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_d6423831	comment	In the John Carter of Mars series most of the Barsoomian races are ruled by monarchs, save for the tribal Green Martians. John Carter of course marries the princess of the Red Martian city of Helium.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_d6f77c8e	comment	Fantastic Children features an example. The people of Greecia have the power to travel to the land of the dead. They can reincarnate themselves and live several lifetimes. They can even put a soul into a mechanical body. Yet they're still a monarchy. They're ruled by a senile and slightly insane king to add extra insult to the injury.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_e235270c	comment	Stellaris: Averted, as any species is able to be one of seven government types: Democracy, Oligarchy, Dictatorship, Empire, Mega Corp, Hive Mind or Machine Intelligence (if they're robots). Depending on their Ethic and Civics, their government can be more specific, such as having the Materialist Ethic can turn a Representative Democracy into a Direct Democracy, or having the Citizen Service Civic makes them a Citizen's Republic.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_e293455a	comment	In Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel most demon cultures shown are autocratic or monarchic in nature. Vampires have generally packs ruled by masters (who are generally not only the strongest, but also the smartest -sometimes by far- and meanest of all). Also most other dimensions shown also seem to have absolute monarchies like Pylea and Oden-Tal.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_e4732abc	comment	Stargate Atlantis: Similar to the Goa'uld, the Wraith run on feudalism, though a slightly more insectoid version. Their society is divided into hives, each one ruled by a queen.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_e6267766	comment	Often the case in Star Wars Legends: Almost none of the alien races from outside of the known galaxy (i.e. extragalactic and Unknown Regions, what the setting would consider truly alien) practice democracy. Ssi-ruuk and Yuuzhan Vong societies both run on a very strict Fantastic Caste System, leading up to a supreme leader, and legitimized by an official state religion. The Killiks are run by a hive mind. The Chosen are dominated by the warlord-conqueror Nuso Esva, with racial and religious allusions suggesting that any beings of other species are considered inferior (though the groups he pressures or tricks into his alliance aren't initially aware of this). The closest thing to a free society outside of the "known galaxy" may be the Chiss Ascendancy, but even their government is dominated by Ruling Families suggesting an aristocratic rather than democratic arrangement. Within the known galaxy, nonhuman species outside of Republic influence don't tend to go for democracy either. The most prominent are the Hutts, a half-plutocratic half-criminal society; they're ruled by a supreme council that houses one representative for each of the major Hutt clans (which are effectively crime syndicates). In complete fairness, the human societies outside of the Republic don't tend to be democratic either: the Hapes Consortium is an absolute monarchy, the Senex and Juvex sectors are slave societies ruled by aristocratic houses, and the Corporate Sector is One Nation Under Copyright. In general, societies outside the Republic are likely to be run this way regardless of species, since they're usually ruled by autocrats who want to be free of Republic laws and Jedi enforcers. The Republic itself is an interesting example. It has the trappings of a democracy, it's referred to as one in-universe, and its chief executive is selected by a simple majority vote among the senators, who can also remove him any time they so choose. However, these senators are chosen by their planetary governments, and the requirements on how those governments should be run are... unclear, but fairly expansive: many of the Republic's alien members have monarchies, hive minds, Fantastic Caste Systems, and other thoroughly nondemocratic systems of government. It's downplayed in that, again, some of the human worlds are nondemocratic as well.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_eb5d7301	comment	Zig-zagged in Amphibia. Overall, Amphibia as a country is ruled by an absolute monarchy, but mayors are democratically elected at the city level. That being said, the electoral system seems off its rocker, like having the candidates compete in Trials by Ordeal, or having the entire valley vote for the mayor of one city.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_f39c217d	comment	Subverted in Aldnoah.Zero. Martians have a monarchy but they aren't actually aliens. They're humans who created civilization on Mars and dissociate themselves from Earth bound humans due to Fantastic Racism.
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_f74b5f80	comment	In Babylon 5: Earth Alliance is the only known democracy in the Galaxy, and even it becames an authoritarian police state for a while. The others are: The Minbari Federation: a federation of the various Minbari clans, with at the top at least two oligarchical councils with three representatives of each of the three Minbari castes (Warrior, Religious and Worker), the highest of which, the Grey Council, wields effectively absolute power (the Council of Caste Elders mostly serves to deal with matters not important enough for the Grey Council). The Centauri Republic: despite the name, it's a monarchy (and not the constitutional one) with an Emperor full in power. The Centaurum, a small legislature made up of the leaders of the eleven Great Houses and a representative for the Lesser Houses of nobility, acts as a counterweight, but how much power it actually has depends on the strength and popularity of the specific emperor. The Narn Regime: a Military Junta led by the leaders of La RÃ©sistance against the Centauri. Background material goes into more detail and explain that the Narn government's name is the Kha'ri and it is made of several concentric circles of power from nobility and high priests to artisans and peasents. G'Kar is from the third circle of professionals and intellectuals. The Drazi Freehold: every five years the population takes at random a green or purple scarf creating two factions (with even local and higher leaders being chosen at random) and the two newly born factions fight each other, the winning side taking power then. As Ivanova finds out by accident, any non-Drazi can join the fray simply by taking the scarf of a faction member (the rules date to before first contact with aliens, and the rule change made specifically to keep the thing restricted only to Drazi was caught in a committee for centuries). The Hyach Grand Council of Elders: a gerontocracy. The Brakiri Syndicracy: a case of Corporatocracy. The pak'ma'ra: a communitarian society with no state (the dream of the anarchists).
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Aliens Never Invented Democracy / int_f82c136e	comment	Kherishdar is about the Ai-Naidar, a species with a rigid, caste-based empire. The short stories are largely about how this works for them, while the novel shows what happens when foreign ideas are introduced into such a system.
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