Quote from: Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial on January 26, 2021, 12:38:36 PMQuote from: xpb on January 26, 2021, 12:03:16 PM
You are correct that a Head of State could be declared King or Queen (there could be an introduction into the CAG that the gender should be flexible for Kingdom or Queendom). There was an election back in the day for King John, but only after there was an abdication. I believe in the current thought process is that the Head of State would be elected on a periodic basis, rather than holding the title until abdication or death.
My idea for an elected Head of State without breaking too many other things was to basically automatically force the King to abdicate after a certain number of years (I believe it was five or so) and trigger a new election that way. Everything else would stay the same.
As for making the name of the country gender-dependent (Kingdom vs Queendom), I believe that this is unnecessary. Not just because no Romance language that I know of has a separate word for "queendom" so coining one in Talossan would be extra unnatural, but because theres a historical precedent for calling the Talossan monarch "King" regardless of gender.
From https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/queendom
queen·dom | \ ˈkwēndəm \
plural -s
Definition of queendom
1: the state or territory ruled by a queen
2: the position of a queen