@Nutz what I meant is that a the term dictatorship is used to
discribe a particular way of destribution of power - the allotment of authority and responsability.
While the term Monarcy is used to
describe a particular way the government legitimizes it's rule.
A monarchy may be
dictatorial/absulote/autocratic and a dictatorship may be
monarchic/hereditary these are terms used to describe different parts of the functioning of government.
In a dictatorship the government may be legitimized through various ways:
It may be a
Emergency/Constitucional dictatorship(
see USA and the Roman republic) were the dictator is legitimazed through legal means when it is decided a emergency demands that such autocratic power is wielded; It may be
Democratic(
see China), were the dictator is elected through popular vote; it may be a
Hereditary/Monarchic dictatorship(
see roman empire/north korea), where the ruler is legitimized through blood and precedent; it may be
Revolutionary , were the ruler is legitimized by personaly rising as a leader of a movenment for change(see
too many to write); etc; etc
While in a monarchy legetimacy comes from divine right, precedent, tradition, right of conquest etc., etc. and there various ways to distribute the power(decision making process) of the state:
Dictatorial/absolute were the ruler bears all the authority(
see Tsarist Russia); it may be
Constitucional/legalist, were the ruler must act according to precedent or legal documents and has enshrined duties to his subjects, a ruler authority is diminished by tradition or by a legal document; it may be
Democratic/Parliamentary monarchy (
see the United Kingdom); it may be a
Aristocratic were a council of nobles has the decision-making power(
see Sparta), etc. etc.
Now, in this mawha, the MC's right to rule is legitimized through 3 means:
Hereditary - he's the son of a king;
Bureaucratic - he's been assigned by the state(his father) as the administrative personel in charge of his land;
Dictatorial - through possession of overwhelming power his will is undiniable, no one would dare speak against him because he personaly has the strengeth to enforce his will, thus any decission he makes is by defenition autocatric/dictatorial. It's like a city ruled by a dragon in DnD. No mater if he is lawful good or chaotic evil his power is such that anything he decrees is law