Government

Basic Information

A government is a body within an organization or nation which has the authority to enforce laws, regulations, or rules.

List of Government Types

• Anarchy
• Aristocracy
• Authoritarianism
• Autarchy
• Autocracy
• City State
• Communist state
• Confederation
• Corporatocracy
• Corporatism / Syndicalism
• Consociational state
• Demarchy
• Democracy
  • Direct Democracy
  • Representative Democracy
  • Consensus Democracy
• Despotism
• Dictatorship
  • Military Dictatorship
• Epistemocracy
• Ethnocracy
• Exilarchy
• Federation
• Feudalism
• Gerontocracy
• Kleptocracy
• Kratocracy
• Kritocracy
• Kritarchy
• Libertarianism
• Logocracy
• Magocracy
• Military junta
• Meritocracy
  • Geniocracy
• Minarchism/Night Watchman State
• Monarchy
  • Absolute Monarchy
  • Constitutional Monarchy
  • Diarchy
• Noocracy
• Ochlocracy
• Oligarchy
• Panarchism
• Paternalism
• Plutocracy
• Puppet state
• Republic
  • Crowned Republic
  • Capitalist Republic
  • Constitutional Republic
  • Federal Republic
  • Parliamentary Republic
  • Federal Republic
• Socialist state
• Sociocracy
• Syndicalism / Corporatism
• Technocracy
  • Cyberocracy
  • Netocracy
• Tellurocracy
• Thalassocracy
• Thanotocracy
• Theocracy
• Theodemocracy
• Timocracy
• Totalitarianism
• Tribe
  • Chiefdom

See Also

• Authority Tropes
• Dystopia
• The Government
• United Nations

Sources

Bibliography

1. Wikipedia entry

2. Form of government Wikipedia entry

3. Worldbuilding: 36 Types of Government (Part 1)

4. Worldbuilding: 36 Types of Government (Part 2)

Game and Story Use

• As the PCs rise in prominence, it is very likely that they might have to interact with the local government. The precise nature of that government will shape this interaction to a large degree.