@deech most monarchies have resulted in a large proportion of their 'subjects' leading miserable lives with the greatest achievement of the monarchy being that they went to war over land/religion/trade.
In terms of 'getting things done', the democractic 20th Century America is hard to beat

@korruptor What are the chances that in a few years they go "all in" on VR and try to make a UI that works on both the desktop and virtual reality?