In a democratic regime, people are "invited" to pay lots of taxes to the government which will invest it in public services such as education, medical care, road transport, the environment, etc.
In a democratic regime, the government, which is the head of the state, has to work for the nation, and provides everyone with education and medical care, protects its people's rights and duties to maintain the delicate balance needed in society to make it work.
The case is that in democracies recognising royalty and nobility as a power state, people's money coming from the taxes is also used to maintain the high standard of living of those people who don't do anything helpful for the nation.
Of course, they (kings and queens) are considered as the heads of State and have to attend some diplomatic meetings to get on well with other countries but they do not really work for their people, they do not have to face and solve the problems when they appear. they just have people's respect and trust without lifting a finger!
Furthermore, the economic situation being so fragile and unsettled -even in countries which are rich and developped-lots of people have difficulties to make ends meet. That is why I think that maintaining royalty and all the costs it brings is a real waste of money.
It is also true that removing royalty and nobility from some democracies would mean to put part of a nation's history behind us and reconsider the way politics have been led for centuries. But do we have to be restrained to live under such a feudal system to maintain part of our nation's history? I don't think so...
Finally, if we look up in the dictionary, democracy it is defined as a "supreme power held by the people under a free electoral system". So let's go to the polls and save the nation! :)
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