Devin Finbarr offers a lesson for future kings:
The European monarchs won a number of battles against the democratic radicals of the 1600-1800′s. The kings were not savage tyrants of the sort that afflicted the 20th century. So rather than slaughtering dissidents wholesale, the monarchs usually expelled the radicals to the Americas. Thus the Puritans departed for America in the 1630′s as Charles I cracked down on dissenters. Numerous German revolutionaries departed after the failed 1848 revolution.
Unfortunately for the kings, they had just granted their enemies three million square miles of fertile, resource rich land. The dissidents conquered the continent, plowed the plains, drilled her oil, and multiplied like rabbits. The fertility rates in Puritan New England were close to 10.0, the highest in recorded history. Out of 20,000 Puritan settlers 16 million are now descendents.
The radical American settlers used their power first to break free of the English monarchy. Then they exported their ideas around the world, to France and South America. They intervened in World War I to crush the counter-revolutionary regimes once and for all and wiped out monarchy across Europe.
A lesson for future kings: do not export your dissidents to the most fruitful land on Earth. Try Siberia next time.