What system of government works for Nepal depends on lot of things. Reality is, in the long run we WILL have the kind of government that INDIA wants us to have. Mark my word that is the truth. If India puts a blockade in Kolkata we are all dead meat. So in the long run we will have DEMOCRACY!! There is no doubt about that. However, let's look at the system of governments: 1) maoism --- has been around only recently 2) Democracy - constitutional monarchy/republic - has been around and if we look deep find a begining of it as well. 3) the MONARCHY system has been around for a long long time (thousands of years) If Nepali state fails as the fear mongorinmg westerners are stipulating these days ... in a political sense, the royal family has most to lose --- thus by extension the king has most to lose. And my thoughts about the KING being corrupt, at least they he has a rellatively full pocket, however the netas have a lot of empty pockets. Regardless, if a RICH netas like Giraja, Madav Kumar comes and puts in a constitutional ammendment that each political leader must submit a financial statement of some sort before they they are elected and while they are in office an oversight "body" of some kind has full rights to examine their finances and during their time in office they only accumulate a reasonable amount of wealth (their salaries) then ... if we can do this I am all for democracy TODAY ... if not I am willing to give the KING, although I don't have much faith in the future of the kingship, a chance to defeat the terrorists who are abducting our chuildren and teachers alike. Stop this nonsense of the elite Baburam and the trecharous Pushkar! BTW, just an off track ... One Pushkar is robing Nepalis of their freedom in Nepal and another Pushkar is robbing Nepalis of their money in the west ... is this coincidence or what!! RBT Ciao