Most of the other countries there, whether monarchies or republics, also have structures that seem increasingly anomalous in the modern world.

无论奉行君主制还是共和制，该地区其他大部分国家的结构在现代世界中也日渐显得与众不同。

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There is, for example, an investiture, not a coronation and protocol is more relaxed than in most other monarchies.

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Whereas other monarchies have mostly abolished or stopped enforcing such laws, Thailand's was made harsher in the 1970s.

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Thanks to their state-sponsored cradle-to-grave welfare systems, the UAE and other Gulf Arab monarchies have largely avoided the Arab Spring unrest which has unseated long-serving rulers elsewhere in the past two years.

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