Picked this up last night when I saw the sale . I ' m so excited to be able to listen to this ! One of my favorite albums , definitely my favorite electronic album . <| sep |> A few spitballs Do something like the Papacy . A group of pious electors choose an envoy to their god or if the pantheon works together the gods . In effect this chosen individual becomes a prophet , and speaks for the godgods . Democracy exists at a local level , while the gods rule at the regional scale . Planets do various things to serve the gods , but act mostly without their interference in the grand machinations of the universe a single planet is unimportant , except for the import it makes for itself . If the people choose rule by divine right which I imagine in a universe where gods exist they very well might then it is still democratic . If the people choose a god to pledge fealty to as an empire , then they are democratically electing a god to serve .