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** Charlemagne, the first emperor, gave Rome away to the Pope, and by [[The Renaissance]] the Empire was basically reduced to Germany, land [[The Roman Empire|the genuine article]] had for the most part never even owned (there are a couple of German towns near the French border that do have Roman ruins, but that's it).
** By the time it finally broke up, the emperor had so little authority that it was more [[The Alliance]] than [[The Empire]], and sometimes [[Thirty Years' War|not even that]].
* A lot of [https://web.archive.org/web/20120930061453/http://www.wikinfo.org/index.php/National_Union_for_Democracy_and_Progress National Unions for Democracy and Progress] have been popping up in 3rd world countries. Might be a subversion, since they're opposition parties, some of which didn't get into power.
* [[Tunisia]]'s governing party, the [[wikipedia:Constitutional Democratic Rally|Constitutional Democratic Rally]], ''was'' this... at least, until the Tunisian Revolution.
* Lest we forget the [[Algeria|People's Democratic Republic of Algeria]].
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