Editing Monarchy (section)

===Absolute Monarchy===
{{topquote|L'État, c'est moi. (I Am the State.)|Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre}}
The Monarch has no formal limits on their power. There are practical limits to their power of course: orders people will not obey, the need to balance the budget (or at the very least pay the bills), etc. Even so there is nothing which can formally challenge or over-ride a monarch's authority or action within the system. Naturally, they tend to be very centralized. Nobles may exist, but they’re nowhere near as autonomous as in a feudal monarchy, and much of the monarch’s power is instead distributed through bureaucracy (which nobles may participate in but only by appointment).

:'''''IRL Examples:''' The Russian Empire before First Russian Revolution (excluding Finland), Pre-Revolutionary France (except for a short 1789-1792 period), most dynasties of Imperial China, Saudi-Arabia, Oman, and Brunei.''