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| Reepicheep wrote: |
| But there doesn't have to be squabbling in the courts to make a good story. I know plenty of stories of successful monarchies facing outside threats. As for Alderaan, I always thought it was like modern-day England, but I might have been thinking of Naboo. *goes to check* |
On both planets, the rulers have real power. In TPM Padme seems to hold all the power in Naboo. Yes, she has advisers etc, but in the end it is she who decides whether Naboo accepts or opposes the Trade Federation's demands. I would say she holds more power than in UK the queen and the prime minister hold together.
Later, she becomes Naboo's senator to the OR senate, nominated by her successor alone. Interestingly, both Naboo and Alderaan (although supposedly on part of the whole Alderaan sector, but the four pre-PT and PT era senators all come from the planet itself) hold seats in the senate, when a single planet holding a seat must be rare; there are few thousand senators and over a million planets in OR.
In Alderaan, it's the members of the royal house who hold the position of the senator to the OR senate. No pesky democratic elections are apparently needed. Bail Organa's father-in-law was the senator before him, and after him his teenaged adopted daughter becomes the senator.
As much as Alderaan is vaunted as an example to the rest of the OR, there's no indication that it was in any way democratic. Naboo's system seems to have been partly democratic as there were elections, but it ended up electing children in their early teens as successors to the throne...
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