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::Many of them. It doesn't really seem to matter whether they execute the royals or not, or whether they're totalitarian republics or liberal ones; most republican revolutions don't eliminate the nobility. America and Russia are more exceptions than the rule. And look at the two other obvious precedents for Infero England besides the USSR. Cromwell's England eliminated the House of Lords, but was ruled mostly by the gentry. In Nazi Germany, nobles retained their titles, and continued to make up a huge percentage of the military officership and civilian upper class, even if being noble hadn't conferred any rights or responsibilities beyond name use since the Weimar Constitution of 1919. | ::Many of them. It doesn't really seem to matter whether they execute the royals or not, or whether they're totalitarian republics or liberal ones; most republican revolutions don't eliminate the nobility. America and Russia are more exceptions than the rule. And look at the two other obvious precedents for Infero England besides the USSR. Cromwell's England eliminated the House of Lords, but was ruled mostly by the gentry. In Nazi Germany, nobles retained their titles, and continued to make up a huge percentage of the military officership and civilian upper class, even if being noble hadn't conferred any rights or responsibilities beyond name use since the Weimar Constitution of 1919. | ||
::The French aristocracy were eventually allowed to regain and use their titles following the Bourbon Restoration, though with the establishing of the Third Republic they no longer have any legal status or privilege. | |||
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