"It has become clear to all that this monarchy has become a liability, not only for the Nuggian people, but for the Nuggian state as a whole, and therefore should not be allowed to continue." - First Line of Democracy and the Monarchy by Alexandra Perkmen

Republicanism is a political philosophy in the The Grand Empire of Nuggia that supports the abolition of the King of Nuggia as the head of state of the Empire, replacing the title with a form of president, elected by the Nuggian population at large, to represent the Nuggian people and their interests. This idea can come in a number of forms, with there being people that just simply want to take the kingship and make it elected, to those who would like to see the kingship abolished and replaced with an elected president that holds both the title of head of state and head of government, in a system similar to that of Nuggia's original colonizer, the United States.

History

Origin

The earliest examples of Republicanist ideals showing up comes right after the end of The Nuggian Civil War, with the calls coming from the shattered fragments of what would later come to be called the Republican Faction as they wanted the return of the democracy they had fought so hard to protect. In this early period, the common name for the movement was democratization, due to the fact that there was little to no democracy in the state that came up after the war and the lack of a unelected head of state.

Growth and decline

Calls for Republicanization have waxed and waned over the decades. The times that the movement is at its strongest are usually when the Crown is embroiled in a political scandal that usually takes down whatever government that was in place at the time. One notorious example of this is the Parks Affair, in which a member of the Royal family embezzled money from the Nuggia budget and put it in his own pockets. Going hand in hand with the political scandals, calls for Republiacization also tend to increase when members of the Royal family engage in illegal or shady actions and are not handed the same punishments that any other citizen of the Empire would face. And finally, one of the most common causes for calls for Republicanization is when the King does anything to interfere with the governance of Nuggia and especially in the realm of law creation. All-in-all, the calls for Republicanization generally tend to increase when the Nuggian people feel like they have no power or that their power is being undermined by the Crown.
This does not mean that the calls for Republicanization go up and up into the stratosphere and you see the abolition of the Monarchy in a decade. Calls for Republicanization can go down for a number of reasons, with some of the most common being when a monarch makes themselves well liked and obviously do anything to influence the political situation and helps their people be prosperous and successful. On the other hand, general apathy tends to slowly chip away at the desire for reform amongst the populous, and the government putting some restraints on the crown can also do the same. Generally, when the crown minds its own business and puts in effort to help the people the calls for abolition and reform tend to die down, sometimes to a drastic degree.

Ideology

Overall, the whole of the Republicanist is moving towards a attempting a movement towards the head of state being an elected official of some form, stripping that power from the House of Baksworth, who has held the title since the Kingship was established following the Nuggian Civil War. Within the movement, there are three major groups of though as to how the state would work with an elected head of state, the Royalist-Republicans, the Diplomatists, and the Presidentialists.

Royalist-Republicans

While the name is an oxymoron, and at its face is just a total contradiction, Royalist-Republicans are actually one of the three main groups of the Republicanist movement. Their desire is to make it so that the king is an elected position by the people of Nuggia. This idea would make it so that the king retains their role in the government and keeps the lifetime appointment to the position, but is elected by general election by the people of Nuggia. There are also a few different groups within the movement with different ideas, but the main thing is really who would be eligible to run. People that hold the House of Baksworth in high regard generally want to keep the kingship within that house, while there are others that say that you should gain eligibility after a certain amount of time holding some political office. By far the most fringe of these groups, though, is the Populist-Royalist-Republicans, who feel that anyone should be eligible to run for the kingship of the Nuggian Empire.

Diplomatists

Diplomatists are the most common of the Republicanist groups, with the rough idea of what they would like to do being that they want to abolish the kingship, replace it with the president that has to be reelected, and make it so that the head of state serves as what is essentially an elected version of a chief diplomat. This idea is a system that derives from the way in which the Nuggian state behaves in the current day, with the head of state, in this case the King, being, ideally, largely powerless in the realm of governance with almost all of the executive power being in the control of the Head Secretary of the Grand Empire of Nuggia, making this idea for a system for a republican government the most popular proposal of the bunch.

Presidentialists

Presidentialists are the third of the big three Republicanist factions, favouring the idea of abolishing the King and replacing the position with an elected President that has total executive power, merging the office with that of the Prime Minister. This would be a radical shift in the government of the Empire because it would mean that the running of the Ministries would no longer be tied to the confidence of the legislative branch. While this is the least popular idea of the bunch due to the fact that it would completely change the system of governance it Nuggia, it is not much less popular than the Royalist-Republicans, the second most popular, due to the fact that it is modeled off of two systems that the Nuggian people are very familiar with, the Nuggian Federal Republic, which was the state that controlled Nuggia prior to the Nuggian Civil War and the institution of the monarchy, and the United States, the country that had first colonized the Nuggia region and a country that most of Nuggia is therefore very familiar with.

In the Modern Day

While the support for a more republican government was at a low following the passing of Third Nuggian Constitution, the support is growing once more. While there has not been a major event to magnetize support like the Parks Affair, there has been a general sense that the Monarchy does not care about the will of the Nuggian people and only really cares about its own self interest. It has come to such a degree that even the Peace and Security Party has had to say that they are at least a bit in favour of Republicanism in the General Election of 2745. At the same time, Republicanist works are also gaining popularity within the The Grand Empire of Nuggia, with books like Monarchy and the Democracy seeing increasing sales over the last couple of years.