I’m making a fantasy novel. In this one there is a monarchy system, where 4 families rule in turns. After the current monarch dies, the next family in the circle most present an heir from their family to ruse the nation until they die and then the next family takes the throne.
What would you call this government model? Oligarchic monarchy? Poli-Monarchy? Help me with some suggestions. I’m also not sure if this has happened in the history, I can’t find anything about it.
Sounds similar to how the monarch of Malaysia is chosen. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succession_to_the_Malaysian_thrones
The next national ruler is chosen from the nine hereditary state sultans. It’s technically an elective monarchy, but there is a conventional rotation order among the states.