and to clarify my views.
Your state once was not even united.
Ancient Athens was detmocratic. Roman Athens was self-governed by democratic regime for its internal afairs. Late Roman and Byzantine Athens was a small village with no significance or glory. Then Athens was raped and it had many monuments stolen by Europeans by aprooval of the Ottoman Empire. Then Athens became the second capital of free Greece, under a republican regime. During 1936-1940 it was under portugaling-fascist rule, then it fell to those German Nazionalists, during 1967-1975 it was again under dictatorial rule. Then again it was a free republic with a social face, and now it's under Troikan and IMF occupation, and my worries is it will be for much time.
How a symbol of true democracy can become Tyrranical and Totalitarian.
Athens= Democracy[Perikles] . Oligarchy [30 Tyrrants, Peloponesian war ect] . Imperial City/Town/Village [Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman], Monarchy and constitutional monarcy [1831] , Republican , fascist [1936-1944 and 1967-1975] , Republican again, and now it's IMF a new kind of state form... Same happens to all states. Nothing stays forever unchanged