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Explore →SystemA directly-elected executive with fixed terms. Separation of powers, vetoes, and checks on executive authority.
Explore →SystemA directly-elected president coexists with a prime minister accountable to parliament. France, Russia, and Ukraine are examples.
Explore →ProcessIn proportional democracies, no party wins outright. Build your own coalition, count the seats, and see whether your government would survive.
349 seats · 2022
No party has ever won a Riksdag majority. The Sweden Democrats broke the traditional two-bloc system.
630 seats · 2025
The AfD's rise as the second-largest party broke Germany's post-war firewall — forcing a CDU/CSU + SPD Grand Coalition despite deep mutual reservations.
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North Sentinel Island is sovereign Indian territory in the Bay of Bengal, home to the Sentinelese — one of the last uncontacted peoples on Earth. India's governance approach is deliberately paradoxical: it asserts full legal sovereignty while enforcing a strict no-contact policy and allowing the Sentinelese to govern themselves entirely. The island is a case study in the outer limits of state power, the politics of deliberate non-governance, and the gap between legal and effective sovereignty.
Legal status: sovereign territory, unadministered
North Sentinel Island is part of India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands Union Territory. It lies approximately 50 kilometres west of South Andaman Island in the Bay of Bengal, covering around 60 km². Under Indian constitutional law, the island is fully sovereign Indian territory — it appears on Indian maps, falls under the jurisdiction of the Andaman and Nicobar Administration, and is subject to Indian legislation. There is no territorial dispute. What makes North Sentinel unusual is not the status of sovereignty but the complete absence of normal administration. India legally owns the island but makes no attempt to govern it in any conventional sense.
The Andamanese Tribal Protection Regulation and the exclusion zone
The primary legal instrument is the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Protection of Aboriginal Tribes) Regulation, 1956 (Regulation 1 of 1956). This regulation designates the Sentinelese — alongside four other Andamanese tribal groups — as a protected population and prohibits entry into their territory without explicit written government permission. In practice this regulation effectively criminalises contact with the Sentinelese by default. Indian authorities enforce a 5-nautical-mile coastal exclusion zone around North Sentinel Island, patrolled by the Indian Coast Guard. Entry without permission is an offence under Indian law. This legal architecture transforms the default of governance from administrative presence to enforced absence.
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