Estia has a non-democratic regime in which the selectorate consists of high religious authorities and the leader acquires power by rising through religious clerical hierarchy
The citizens are subject to the hierarchical authority of the governance that is driven by religious principles codified in the holy scriptures of the Estians. This type of a regime is known as a(n) ________.
A. personalistic regime
B. monarchy
C. oligarchy
D. theocracy
E. single-party regime
D
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