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Description	World's states coloured by form of government as of 2006, including only electoral democracies as judged by Freedom House orange - parliamentary republics green - presidential republics, executive presidency linked to a parliament yellow - presidential republics, semi-presidential system blue - presidential republics, full presidential system red - parliamentary constitutional monarchies in which the monarch does not personally exercise power magenta - constitutional monarchies in which the monarch personally exercises power, often (but not always) alongside a weak parliament purple - absolute monarchies brown - republics where the dominant role of a single party is enshrined in the constitution. beige - states where constitutional provisions for government have been suspended
Date	1 May 2006
Source	own work, from existing wikimedia blank world map, melding File:Form of Government.png with data from File:Freedom House electoral democracies 2006.png
Author	The_Tom
Permission (Reusing this file)	GFDL

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current	17:24, 29 May 2008	1,357 × 628 (65 KB)	Nightstallion	{{Information \|Description= \|Source= \|Date= \|Author= \|Permission= \|other_versions= }}
	01:48, 20 April 2008	1,357 × 628 (24 KB)	Supaluminal~commonswiki	Novaya Zemlya changed from yellow to grey
	01:46, 16 April 2007	1,357 × 628 (19 KB)	Tene~commonswiki	Optimised (0)
	22:46, 11 February 2007	1,357 × 628 (30 KB)	The Tom	re-added transparency
	22:20, 11 February 2007	1,357 × 628 (65 KB)	The Tom	Some unexplainable errors caught (ie, dunno how Libya wound up coloured-in)
	23:08, 4 January 2007	1,357 × 628 (25 KB)	The Tom	Miscellaneous updates: Standardized orange, transparency, island state labels
	15:14, 31 October 2006	1,357 × 628 (35 KB)	Taw	The orange looked too much like the red, changed to make more distinct.
	04:34, 22 May 2006	1,357 × 628 (54 KB)	The Tom	revision to Botswana, Finland, Nepal and Serbia-Montenegro
	16:42, 9 May 2006	1,357 × 628 (54 KB)	The Tom	Switzerland edit
	00:21, 9 May 2006	1,357 × 628 (54 KB)	The Tom	New base map with black outlines and enlarged microstates. New pale green for South Africa and 3 South Pacific nations. -~~~~