Is the Vatican an Absolute Monarchy?

The vatican is an independent state of its own. Its main revenue stream is the pis peter's pence from visitors to rome. The budget operates chronically indeficit, tt consistently in deficit for years. And right now the the vatican authorities are going through a kind of austerity programme to try and balance the books. But it's also just inveiled in endless scandals about mismanagement,. money laudering, flat out fraudAn ridiculously bad investments in property in london.