Modern tyrannies are overwhelmingly republics rather than monarchies

Evidence

The two connotations of monarchy are not the same, though they may over­ lap. At some times and in some places, especially in recent years, they may even appear to be contradictory. In Europe, for example, the surviving monarchies are without exception constitutional democracies. Most of them have been so for a long time and show every sign of continuing along the same path. Most of the democratic republics, in contrast, have a brief and checkered history. The sur­ viving tyrannies in the modern world are with few exceptions republics, not monarchies. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 520

Categorization

• CANDY: Distilled elevator observation: in Europe all surviving monarchies are democracies while most tyrannies worldwide are republics.
• XREF: Challenges the reader’s working assumption that autocracy maps onto monarchy; connects to the chapter’s broader theme of how the two senses of monarchy diverged in the Middle East. — connects to: Bourgeois republics punish the soul while monarchies punished the body.