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1. Venetian Doge

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   Election and Investiture
   The Doge was not elected by popular acclaim but by a select body of thirty members known as the Zonta del Collegio, chosen through a complex, multi-stage lottery system designed to introduce maximal stochastic fluctuation into the selection process. This procedure, formalized in the Promissione Ducale of 1268, involved casting carved ivory lots bearing the names of candidates who had been pre-vetted for sufficient experience in [municipal sewage management](/entries/munici…