epublic; multiparty presidential regime (opposition parties
legalized in 1990)

Gambia, The:
republic under multiparty democratic rule

Georgia:
republic

Germany:
federal republic

Ghana:
constitutional democracy

Gibraltar:
NA

Greece:
parliamentary republic; monarchy rejected by referendum 8
December 1974

Greenland:
parliamentary democracy within a constitutional monarchy

Grenada:
constitutional monarchy with Westminster-style parliament

Guadeloupe:
NA

Guam:
NA

Guatemala:
constitutional democratic republic

Guernsey:
NA

Guinea:
republic

Guinea-Bissau:
republic, multiparty since mid-1991

Guyana:
republic within the Commonwealth

Haiti:
elected government

Holy See (Vatican City):
ecclesiastical

Honduras:
democratic constitutional republic

Hong Kong:
NA

Hungary:
parliamentary democracy

Iceland:
constitutional republic

India:
federal republic

Indonesia:
republic

Iran:
theocratic republic

Iraq:
republic

Ireland:
republic

Israel:
parliamentary democracy

Italy:
republic

Jamaica:
constitutional parliamentary democracy

Japan:
constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary government

Jersey:
NA

Jordan:
constitutional monarchy

Kazakhstan:
republic

Kenya:
republic

Kiribati:
republic

Korea, North:
authoritarian socialist; one-man dictatorship

Korea, South:
republic

Kuwait:
nominal constitutional monarchy

Kyrgyzstan:
republic

Laos:
Communist state

Latvia:
parliamentary democracy

Lebanon:
republic

Lesotho:
parliamentary constitutional monarchy

Liberia:
republic

Libya:
Jamahiriya (a state of the masses) in theory, governed by the
populace through local councils; in fact, a military dictatorship

Liechtenstein:
hereditary constitutional monarchy

Lithuania:
parliamentary democracy

Luxembourg:
constitutional monarchy

Macau:
NA

Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:
emerging democracy

Madagascar:
republic

Malawi:
multiparty democracy

Malaysia:
constitutional monarchy

note: Malaya (what is now Peninsular Malaysia) formed 31 August
1957; Federation of Malaysia (Malaya, Sabah, Sarawak, and Singapore)
formed 9 July 1963 (Singapore left the federation on 9 August 1965);
nominally headed by the paramount ruler and a bicameral Parliament
consistin