Communism is a system of government designed to enable the poor to rise up and achieve financial and social status equal to that of middle-class landowners. In order for all to achieve equality, wealth is redistributed in such a way as to bring members of the upper classes to the same financial and social level as the middle classes. Some communist countries today are China, Laos, North Korea and Vietnam. Socialism is when the government owns all the property and means of production instead of them being privately owned by the people. In socialism, there is no private business or private land. Some socialist countries today include Denmark, Finland, Belgium, Canada, Sweden, Ireland and New Zealand. Monarchy is another type of government that consists of a king or queen and is ruled by a single person rather than a group of people or citizens of the country. There are no monarch countries today, but there were a few in the past, such as China in 1911, Saudi Arabia in the mid-1850s, Japan in 1947, and England in the early years 1940.