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== Real Life ==
* The Kingdom of [[Poland]] and the Grand Duchy of [[Lithuania]], especially after the last of the Jagiellons died without issue in 1573. It was even known as ''Commonwealth''. With a king. One may claim it was a republic with lifelong presidential term (compare with Venice below).
* The [[Holy Roman Empire]] (of the German Nation): the Emperor was elected by a group of four secular prince-electors (namely the King of Bohemia, the Margrave of Brandenburg, the Count Palatine of the Rhine, and the Duke of Saxony) and three archbishops (of Mainz, Trier, and Cologne).
** Usually, anyway—the claim to the electorate of the Wittelsbach dynasty was split in the 13th century between the Count Palatine and the Duke of Bavaria, and sometimes Bavaria stepped in for the Palatinate or Bohemia (when the rival Wittelsbachs conspired with each other to exclude him on the grounds that he wasn't German). After the [[Thirty Years' War]], the Palatinate Wittelsbachs were Protestants and the Bavarian ones Catholics, so it was decided that both would get to be electors (conveniently solving the problem of balance between Protestants and Catholics), bringing the total to eight.
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