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Let's all in here agree to leave the kid's 'stache alone. Everyone knows that's an important hidden stat, and messing with it means he can't offer to give mustache rides to those that need them.
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So, less important than history is current events. The picture you're painting here is one of a nation held together by a self-correcting and self-sustaining bureaucracy. One that's remained stable for seven centuries without a figurehead! It is actually very impressive when you think about it. It means the bureaucracy has a way to cull the overly ambitious and to select the competent to become administrators. Likely related to keeping nobles from using power consolidation methods too much, like accumulating too much fungible wealth over the course of generations with strict estate taxes.
I guess we did a good job last time. Probably even better than I could have imagined, seeing as how the Emperor decided to hide us rather than take the risk that some upstart n-child of of his would fuck everything up.
I mean it's been 35 generations since then. That's a huge potential pool of pretenders to the throne who could make a giant mess of things. But if the competent people are all loyal to the idea of the country, rather than to the bloodlines that united the country originally, then you've got something that's able to keep providing all the advantages of a country without the periodic civil wars.
Anyways here's something to chew on: “The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.” That's held true for pretty much any successful bureaucracy, and I expect this bureaucracy is quite large by now. Since you were trained to be a spy, you know this essential truth: the bigger they are, the more cracks in the security you can slip in through.
The question you should be asking yourself, Leon the First, is what methods do you think are completely unacceptable for taking control of people? Are we going to tear the country apart and start from scratch? Are we going to do things the slower way and figure out how to make the bureaucracy report to you? Or maybe the dangerous compromise appeals: a deft application of lies and practical power could upset this self-correcting system so that when it balances out again it's in your favor.
Whatever we do, we'll need to know who has their hands on the reins right now, where the food comes from, what the external threats to the country are, and what the internal threats to the country are. Current events, you see.
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