Talk:Equestria/@comment-3116325-20111006060918/@comment-70.232.49.178-20111023214140

Actually, a dictatorship has nothing to do with how they came to power, but how they rule. It just means they rule without restrictions, no constitution and no laws govern them. Absolute monarchy and dictatorship are basically the same thing, it's just that dictatorship has a negative connotation. What kind of monarchy they have in the show isn't discussed, so we don't know, but TECHNICALLY it isn't either. It's a Diarchy, that is, a country that is ruled by two.