“Did you know,” he said, peering up at her, “that in Nander, they’ve decided they don’t want a king?” “What?” she said. “No king at all?” “Yes,” he said. “The committee of nobles will continue to rule by vote, alongside another committee of equal power that will be comprised of representatives elected by the people.” “You mean like a sort of . . . aristocratic and democratic republic?” said Bitterblue, plucking terms from the book about monarchy and tyranny.
What an English republic might initially look like, if royalty were abolished.
