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Ants aren't actually monarchists. The girls rule the roost, the queens don't actually exert control on them beyond identifying themselves as queen.
That said, we are locked in battle with them for domination of the earth. It's really a four way fight between ants, rats, humans, and kudzu to rule over the mudball. Who will win? Who will rule over the ruins? Time alone will tell.
I want to see ant nest uplifts as part of a pan-terran spaceship crew in some sf
Do the ant computers in the Children of Time series count (probably not)? I always found their enslavement to the spiders to be problematic and I hope it is addressed in a later book.
There is Of Ants and Dinosaurs by Liu Cixin.
Aren't rats basically just a human parasite (though on the scale of societies and not individual humans)? Same as cockroaches neither of those species prosper out of the ordinary in the wild.