Military government

World's states coloured by systems of government:

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Parliamentary systems: Head of government is elected or nominated by and accountable to the legislature

  Constitutional monarchy with a ceremonial monarch

  Parliamentary republic with a ceremonial president

  Parliamentary republic with an executive president

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Presidential system: Head of government (president) is popularly elected and independent of the legislature

  Presidential republic

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Hybrid systems:

  Semi-presidential republic: Executive president is independent of the legislature; head of government is appointed by the president and is accountable to the legislature

  Assembly-independent republic: Head of government (president or directory) is elected by the legislature, but is not accountable to it

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Other systems:

  Theocratic republic: Supreme Leader holds significant executive and legislative power

  Semi-constitutional monarchy: Monarch holds significant executive or legislative power

  Absolute monarchy: Monarch has unlimited power

  One-party state: Power is constitutionally linked to a single political party

  Military junta: Committee of military leaders controls the government; constitutional provisions are suspended

  Provisional government: No constitutionally defined basis to current regime

  Dependent territories or places without governments

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Note: this chart represents de jure systems of government, not the de facto degree of democracy.

A military government is any government that is administered by a military, whether or not this government is legal under the laws of the jurisdiction at issue or by an occupying power. It is usually administered by military personnel.

Types of military government include:

• Military occupation of acquired foreign territory and the administration thereof
• Martial law, temporary military rule of domestic territory
• Military dictatorship, an authoritarian government controlled by a military and its political designees, called a military junta when done extralegally
• Military junta, a government led by a committee of military leaders.
• Stratocracy, a government traditionally or constitutionally run by a military.
• Military democracy, a war based society that practices democracy. With an elected and removable general as supreme chief, a council of elders and a popular assembly.