Despotic Monarchy

This article is accurate for the latest versions of EU3, Napoleon’s Ambition, In Nomine, Heir to the Throne and Divine Wind.

Among the earliest government types known to man, the country is ruled by a single individual with undefined power. Asia is predominantly ruled by despotic monarchies with the exception of Ming which has the comparatively advanced Administrative Monarchy ( Celestial Empire and Japan with Shogunate).

Divine Wind

Changes:

• Policy Minimum: Centralization vs.Decentralization -2
• Policy Maximum: Aristocracy vs. Plutocracy 2, Serfdom vs. Free Subjects 2
• Magistrates: +0.50

Heir to the Throne

• Activation: Government 2
• Administrative Efficiency: 1.25
• Policy Minimum: Centralization vs.Decentralization -2
• Policy Maximum: Serfdom vs. Free Subjects 1
• Magistrates: +0.40
• Special: Infamy limit +10

Government Change Stability Cost

• Administrative Monarchy: 0.5
• Absolute Monarchy: 0.5
• Enlightened Despotism: 1.0
• Constitutional Monarchy: 1.0
• Noble Republic: 2.0
• Theocracy: 2.0
• Feudal Monarchy: 2.0

Previous Versions

• Activation: From the beginning
• Administrative Efficiency: 1.25
• Special: Infamy limit +10
• Limits: Serfdom vs. Free Subjects +1

Government changes

• Administrative Monarchy: 0.5
• Absolute Monarchy: 0.5
• Constitutional Monarchy: 1.0
• Enlightened Despotism: 1.0
• Feudal Monarchy: 2.0
• Noble Republic: 2.0
• Theocracy: 2.0

Forms of Government

Monarchies: Despotic Monarchy • Empire • Feudal Monarchy • Administrative Monarchy • Absolute Monarchy • Constitutional Monarchy • Revolutionary Empire

Republics: Noble Republic • Merchant Republic • Administrative Republic • Republican Dictatorship • Constitutional Republic • Revolutionary Republic

Despotisms: Enlightened Despotism • Bureaucratic Despotism

Theocracies: Theocracy • Papacy

Tribal governments: Tribal Despotism • Tribal Federation • Tribal Democracy • Steppe Nomads

Nation-specific: Celestial Empire