Kingdom of Nepal

The Kingdom of Nepal, also known as the Gorkhali Kingdom, was the government of Nepal, a landlocked state in South Asia, from 1768 to 2008, when it was replaced by a Republic. Being connected with the cultural and historical ties of India, it was founded in 1768 by Prithvi Narayan Shah, a Gorkha king, who succeeded in unifying the three existing smaller kingdoms of Kathmandu, Patan and Bhaktapur into a single state.
The Monarchy was abolished in 2008, seven years after the Nepalese royal massacre and following a Maoist democracy movemement that began in 2006 against the final monarch, Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev. In place of the monarchy, Nepal adopted an interim republican constitution and the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal was established. At the point of the Kingdom of Nepal's disestablishment, it was the world's only country to have Hinduism as its state religion;[1] the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal is an officially secular state.