Extraordinário

Extraordinário, existe um estado independente na Grécia chamado Athos, montanha Grécia em que as mulheres não podem lá entrar (incluindo todas as espécies de mamíferos femininos). Pensei que este tipo de coisas não existia. Que era conversa de fanáticos muçulmanos ou assim. Mas parece que não, são Monges Ortodoxos Cristãos. Em baixo retirado do Wikipedia.

Athos (The Holy Mountain) Greece

Mount Athos is the only autonomous administrative department in Greece, which is a country run according to Roman Law and is otherwise entirely a unitary state. Mount Athos is theocratic, is ruled entirely by the Monks under their own council based in the capital Karyes, and it controls who can visit. Only Orthodox Christian males are allowed to stay permanently on Athos, which consists of 20 Monastic establishments. Its spiritual leadership is the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople based in Istanbul. There is a religious police guard that has the authority to impose order, e.g. bans the playing of musical instruments by visitors. The Greek police also has authority with the monks' permission to enforce the civil law of Greece and decisions of the Patriarchate in accordance with the Canon, e.g. the decision to evict the monks of the renegade Esphigmenou monastery. Athos has upheld derogations from the EU allowing them to continue the prohibition of the entry of females (including female mammals) on the mountain. This isn't because they are male monks, but because the mountain is dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and this is an important historical fact of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

The Papal States -- the predecessor to the Vatican City State -- functioned more theocratically, with penalties that included excommunication.

in Wikipedia, word Theocracy