The Roman Empire After Augustus

The roman empire always called itself the republica. It's very common for forms to disappear and be maintained in a sort of symbolic, an symbolic form. And so if you compare it to personal authority like fano syama or trump, which are really in control of the individual monarchs, that structure becomes kind of oligarchical in a very different sense. The emperor of japan last was sort of a working emperor a about a millennium ago. But that whole system has basically persisted.