What government type is Equestria?

What government type do you think Equestria is?

Knowing the government can be useful for a story.

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[Toxicfox]

Diarchy, a government of two independent authorities

[SabreTheRedMane]

Constitutional diarchy with a very strong Diarch's authority.

[DGJabberwocky]

Sovereign diarchy

[ThatNoobPony]

Diarchy, and possibly semi-independed city-states as vassals.(Looking on South Equestria, and couple cities when making that assumption)

[WhitewolfStormrunner]

5398586 This is the one I use, as well.

[proclarushtaonasat]

5398606
I mostly agree, although, when celestia and luna retired and gave twilight her (second) coronation, it was called the first political shift in a thousand years (or something like that, i think rarity was the one who said it). So Luna returning and twilights first coronation didnt change the structure, only celestia being replaced as "queen" (or supreme princess?) seems to count.
So its a monarchy, with one supreme ruler, (Celestia, Twilight 2.0) and multiple sub-rulers (Luna, Cadance, Shining Armor, Blueblood, Twilight 1.0)

But even a princess cant do whatever she wants, as some government bodies, like the EEA, can override a princesses authority in certain fields, when certain conditions are met.

[Hotel_Chicken]

5398624
I like "Supreme Princess."

"Behold, the Supreme Princess has graced us with her supreme presence!"

[Wydril]

5398586
I think it's just an absolute monarchy/diarchy. In the first episode of season 4, as soon as Celestia and Luna go missing from the plunder vines, Equestria grinds to a halt. The military reports solely to the reining monarch/diarch, and Applejack tells Twilight to leave the Everfree Forest because "Equestria can't handle losing another princess". It doesn't seem like there's any civil authority that doesn't stem directly from the ruler, so no one else can issue provincial or even temporary orders.

Headcanon-wise though, I agree. Constitutional morarchy/diarchy is a better fit for the setting.

[PixelatedPerson]

Its just an Absolute Monarchy, with multiple rulers as we all know .

[Sigmacipher]

Can't say for sure, it seems to operate as a sort of Oligarchy, although who is in charge of what is hard to tell at times.

There is also the existence of Neighsay to consider, seeing his role in School Daze makes me think that it's not an absolute Oligarchy since Twilight could have shut him up by pulling rank if that were the case.

[Ekhidna]

It's, as far as I can tell, a benevolent Diarchy (then Monarchy, later Monarchy, then Triarchy, then Quarchy, in a sense, then Triarchy, and finally a Monarchy. This is the only real change) with enlightened rulers viewed in a religious/spiritual manner by the populace with touches of a fairly mobile caste system, with multiculturalism and diversity merging, spiced with oligarchical structuring and democratic self-management on a local level, though aristocrats still hold sway but not overarching power. The Diarchy itself isn't absolute, since there are several bodies of administration working alongside and under it, though due to the enlightened nature of the Diarchy, without them to guide everything else halts until the crisis is averted. It also shows little expansionistic tendencies, preferring a more inward approach while extending a hand of unity, not conquest, to those around them.

Hope it helps, Bendy.

[proclarushtaonasat]

5398738
we got to thank hasbro for that one.
Originally, Faust wanted Celestia to be a Queen, and Luna turned into nightmare moon cause she was "just a Princess" and wanted the promotion. But Hasbro was like "that doesnt make sense, everyone knows that Queens are evil and Princesses are good, cause Disney said so".

Thats why we got different Tiers of Princesses now. Also Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone, cause why would Voldemort want a stone that grants the power of philosophy? That would make no sense!

[Herald of Opera]

Nobody working on the show ever really cared about making a coherent canon except Faust herself, and they vetoed her both on what 5399221 said and then arbitrarily giving wings to Cadance. Lots of other nonsense once you start looking for it, like sandwiches.

[proclarushtaonasat]

5402249
although one has to distinguish between the writers and hasbro itself. I think the writers did a great job, considering what they had to work with.
Like when hasbro demanded, that they added the rainbow power forms in the season 4 finale, to sell the corresponding toys. the writers disliked the designs as much as the fandom, but since they were obligated to include them, they gave the designs as little screentime as possible, only a couple of seconds in a 40 minute two-parter. Or when they had to include twilights castle, which the fandom disliked as well, they made an episode about how twilight didnt like it either.
the song art of the dress and the episode where rarity opens her manehattan-shop, are secretely about what the writers had to deal with: people wedging stupid ideas into her work