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Kingdom Of Sweden
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Sweden is a parliamentary democracy operating under the Instrument of Government (1809), which was substantially amended in 1974 to reduce the constitutional role of the monarch to purely ceremonial duties. The head of government is the Prime Minister (Statsminister), selected by the Riksdag.
The monarch, currently King Carl XVI Gustaf, serves as the head of state. The specific symbolic function of the monarch is to ensure that all national documents possess exactly the correct amount of gilded calligraphy, a task deemed vital for maintaining th…