· v2.6.0
Prime ministers, party leaders, and rulers shared across one land
- Rulers and reigns
- Data and accuracy
A state now shows who governed it as well as who reigned: Britain's prime ministers, the Soviet premiers and every other head of government recorded are a line of their own, drawn beside the rulers. In one-party states the rulers are the leaders of the ruling party, as each state's own list of leaders gives them, so Lenin and Stalin lead the Soviet Union and Deng Xiaoping leads China.
- Each state's heads of government are shown under its rulers, from Walpole to the present for Britain, and a prime minister's own page shows the line with their place in it ringed in gold. They are never counted in the rulers' figures: a cabinet is not a reign.
- In the Soviet Union, China, East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, Mongolia, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Laos and Cuba the rulers are the party's leaders, read from each state's list of leaders; the formal heads of state, such as Kalinin and Voroshilov, are shown as a line of their own.
- The British Empire now has its monarchs and its prime ministers.
- Rulers are shared between the states that held one land in turn: West Germany has its presidents and chancellors, which the record files under today's Germany.
- An entry for a state is now labelled State, and a border on the map that opens no entry yet is labelled Territory.