If you are referring to Israel, I think you need to readjust your definition  of that State to include the fact that, whatever it's constitution may say, Israel in history and spirit has a large element of theocratic rule mixed in to its ethos. The phrase,  "Next Year in Jerusalem" entered the Haggadah  (the text recited at the Seder on the first two nights of the Jewish Passover) in the Middle Ages and refers to Jews rebuilding the Temple in Jerusalem.   To ignore that history is to ignore a major factor in Israeli culture.