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addition of Smalcald Articles of Lutheran Princes and criminalization of Catholicism, Atheism imposed, and Wahabism imposed
* [[Utopia|Utopian]] [[Commune|communities]] founded in the United States and Europe 16th through 20th centuries, by such groups as the [[Anabaptists|Anabaptists beginning as early as 1521]]. See especially [[Socialism#Religion|Religious socialism]].
* [[Utopia|Utopian]] [[Commune|communities]] founded in the United States and Europe 16th through 20th centuries, by such groups as the [[Anabaptists|Anabaptists beginning as early as 1521]]. See especially [[Socialism#Religion|Religious socialism]].
* Rule by the [[Lutheranism|Lutheran Princes]] in accord with the [[Smalcald Articles]] beginning in 1537, with the systematic eradication of Catholicism as a crime punishable by death throughout their territories.
* [[Geneva|Geneva, Switzerland]] during the [http://vlib.iue.it/carrie/texts/carrie_books/gilbert/14.html Genevan Reform c. 1541-1564 under John Calvin].
* [[Geneva|Geneva, Switzerland]] during the [http://vlib.iue.it/carrie/texts/carrie_books/gilbert/14.html Genevan Reform c. 1541-1564 under John Calvin].
* [[Salt Lake City]] (1847) and [[Utah]] under the prophets and Council of Elders of the [[Mormonism|Latter-day Saints]] in the 19th century in the United States.
* [[Salt Lake City]] (1847) and [[Utah]] under the prophets and Council of Elders of the [[Mormonism|Latter-day Saints]] in the 19th century in the United States.
* Since 1926 the theocratic [http://sabda.sriaurobindoashram.org/catalog/show.php?id=about_saa Sri Aurobindo Ashram] in India.
* Since 1926 the theocratic [http://sabda.sriaurobindoashram.org/catalog/show.php?id=about_saa Sri Aurobindo Ashram] in [[India]].
* The [[Vatican]] of the [[Roman Catholic Church]] is a formal [[Christian]] theocracy, with the [[Pope]] as head of both church and state. By technicality, [[Vatican City]] established by the Treaty of the Lateran in 1929 is a theocracy, as it is ruled by the Pope, placed by a divine election.
* The [[Vatican]] of the [[Roman Catholic Church]] is a formal [[Christian]] theocracy, with the [[Pope]] as head of both church and state. By technicality, [[Vatican City]] established by the Treaty of the Lateran in 1929 is a theocracy, as it is ruled by the Pope, placed by a divine election.
* Only two [[Democracy|democracies]] (or more precisely [[Republic (Politics)|republics]]) reserve places in their legislatures specifically for representatives of the state religion, these are the aforementioned Islamic Republic of Iran and the [[United Kingdom]] where Bishops of the [[Church of England]] sit in the upper chamber, the [[House of Lords]] under the designation of Lords Spiritual, the [[Monarchy|monarch of England]] being also the supreme head of the Church of England since 1559.<ref>[http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Documents/act_of_supremacy2.htm Act of Supremacy]</ref>
* Only two [[Democracy|democracies]] (or more precisely [[Republic (Politics)|republics]]) reserve places in their legislatures specifically for representatives of the state religion, these are the aforementioned Islamic Republic of Iran and the [[United Kingdom]] where Bishops of the [[Church of England]] sit in the upper chamber, the [[House of Lords]] under the designation of Lords Spiritual, the [[Monarchy|monarch of England]] being also the supreme head of the Church of England since 1559.<ref>[http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Documents/act_of_supremacy2.htm Act of Supremacy]</ref>
* [[Atheism]] imposed by the [[Reign of Terror]] in [[France]] in the 18th century, and by the [[Soviet Union]], the [[Peoples Republic of China]] and the Communist governments in [[Southeast Asia]], Africa, [[Cuba]] and [[South America]] in the 20th and 21st centuries.
* [[Wahabism]] or militant extremist Islam imposed on countries and communities controlled by [[Al Qaeda]], the [[Taliban]], and [[ISIS]] since the beginning of the 21st century, in the Middle East and Africa and island nations in the Pacific.
==Theocracy as tyranny==
==Theocracy as tyranny==