The government is controlled by the workers. Laws are created to protect civil rights. The government regulates the economy completely.
A society that is guided by an absolute monarchy system of ruling has an impossible chance letting their low class citizens to have an equal right compare to those upper class. Also, they have a greater chance to have a dictator leader that would give the leader the absolute power which will then lower down to bad decision making.
Since gaining their independence and becoming self-determined, huge issues arose in things like different ethnic backgrounds or different religious practices or a rise in wealthy and corrupt politicians or totalitarian military governments or similar. These factors all combined together to prevent democratization of the country.