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{{legend-table2|lang=en|title=World's states colored by [[:en:form of government|form of government]] as of 2011<sup>1</sup>
|#3355dd|[[:en:Presidential system|Presidential republics]]<sup>2</sup>
|#f0e847|[[:en:Semi-presidential system|Semi-presidential republics]]<sup>2</sup>
|#ff9a33|[[:en:Parliamentary system|Parliamentary republics]]<sup>2</sup>
|#aa6f33|[[:en:One-party state|One-party republics]]
|#e75353|[[:en:Parliamentary system|Parliamentary]] [[:en:Constitutional monarchy|constitutional monarchies]]
|#801a80|[[:en:Absolute monarchy|Absolute monarchies]]
|#6b8e23|[[:en:Military dictatorship|Military dictatorships]]
|#ee1af9|Parliamentary constitutional monarchies in which the monarch personally exercises power
|#66bb66|Republics with an executive president dependent on a parliament
|#b9b9b9|Countries which do not fit any of the above systems
|notes=<sup>1</sup>This map was complied according to the Wikipedia ''[[list of countries by system of government]]''. See there for sources.
<sup>2</sup>Several states constitutionally deemed to be multiparty republics are broadly described by outsiders as authoritarian states. This map presents only the ''[[de jure]]'' form of government, and not the ''[[de facto]]'' degree of democracy.}}
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