The economic system would be entirely separated from the government (with some restrictions)

For economic system, there can be several forms of capitalism (mercantilism, etc.), communism, some sort of tribal stuff for early in the game.

Just thoughts.

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- Biddles

quote: (A democratic communism??? or a capitalist dictatorship???)

Tical, I think you have fallen prey to capitalist propaganda. First of all, why haven't we ever seen a democratic communism? 2 reasons: the only two major countries to become communist (Russia and China) have had LONG histories of being ruled by autocrats. There knowledge of how to run a democracy was almost non-existent. Its not a matter of the idealism of Marxists, it is the culture of the country... The second reason is that these were both revolutions. Revolutions almost always lead to dictatorships or anarchy. The United States was very lucky, but even then, few people know that the Continental Army almost stormed Philadelphia and overthrew the Congress shortly after the war.

The other thing is that Capitalist Dictatorships are very common. Name any non-Communist or Fascist dictatorships... there have been many in the course of the 20th century alone. Monarchies? Those are dictatorships with nicer names. But if that still doesn't convince you, the U.S. would not have helped the Brazilian military overthrow the socialist-friendly democracy in 1964 unless they thought the dictatorship would be capitalist.

dictator: a ruler with absolute power and authority.

totaliterian: designating of, or characteristic of a government or state in which one political party or group maintains complete control under a dictatorship and bans all others.

I don't think that dictatorship means that the dictator total controls the economy. I think that most dictatorships have had free enterprise although under government regulation. There is something called dictatorship of the proletariat that controls the entire economic sysem. which is basically a communist dictatorship.

I also took the liberty of looking up fascism.

Fascism: a system of government characterized by rigid one-party dictatorship, forcible suppression of opposition, private economic enterprise under centralized governmental control, belligerent nationalism, racism, and militarism, etc.

For instance, a Democracy could vary from 100% Free Market / 0% Planned to 67% Free Market / 33% Planned (limiting the economic systems to 2 for the sake or argument), depicting the differences between the USA and Europe.

Communism (yes, a government type) would then allow the opposite third of the line: there was a big difference between the USSR and Yugoslavia. Then Fundamentalism could perhaps be stuck in the middle.

Or maybe there could be some overlap.

This doesn't mean that a dictator can't control the private enterprise of the country (saddam hussein is the perfect example of a dictator who controls the countries private enterprise).

Tical, government systems and economic systems do not go hand in hand, in theory or in practice.

The same thing goes for despotism and monarchy. Despotism, the despot rules all, owns all and decides all. The economy is communist and the ruler is the despot. Monarchy, the monarch is the head of government and the economy is relatively free.

Dictatorship is another bracket, so to speak, because the dictator rules through the military, aside from the economy, and can choose which form of economy he wants.