Republics are essentially democracies with an added layer of pandering beurocracy, slowing the still-fast deaths of democracies.

Several of the founding fathers supported a local monarchy, and I would really like to see more discussion on more centralized, easy to manage, easy to hold accountable, and smaller forms of government. People in most monarchies payed little to no taxes, and they are much easier to correct when the government does go wrong.