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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

...it's a monarchy.

If anyone you read, or know, ever refers to a monarchy as progressive, you can immediately disregard everything they ever write, or say.

The only context where it's at least explainable would be in a limited to direct comparison between Jordan and the other regional monarchs with large petroleum reserves.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

it's also a tribal country. Pretty much all Jordanians belong to different tribes and they still have all that honor stuff.

[–] FlyingSquid 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I don't know, isn't Sweden technically a monarchy?

[–] OccamsTeapot 4 points 3 months ago

Sweden is technically a monarchy but a constitutional one. Jordan is actually a traditional monarchy, just weakly pretending to be a constitutional one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

The Netherlands is also a monarchy, and Denmark.