Human civilization has shown that, you know, when the people in a democracy in particular are happy at home, and certainly autocracies are quite different.
As a result, his dictatorship survived the war and Spain continued to effectively function as an authoritarian right-wing police state for decades until his death 30 years later in 1975.
But unlike their absolutist counterparts in the Gulf and Asia, most royal families have survived because they allow voters to avoid the difficult search for a non-controversial but respected public figure.
He said that South Africa was in danger of becoming a kleptocratic state while his deputy, who was also sacked, claimed that state funds were being stolen to benefit a small elite.