From reddit:
In the UK, the monarchy is the root account, but it is disabled. Government is performed via sudo.
(N.B. with our constitutional monarchy and bicameral legislature, this is not quite true)
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This assumes that the UK is a single system rather than a distributed architecture. Do not suggest this to Plaid or the SNP or they will cause a panic.
Indeed; so are the devolved nations ssh accounts with restricted superuser privileges?