A Chaotic Good ... King?

[Eltab]

A CG king would want to create only the minimum necessary laws. Look at (for instance) the Ten Commandments, rather than Hammurabi's Code, for inspiration. Then hire some LN or LG lawyers and give them a limited commission to make only the _needful_ laws to breathe life into those principles. Also hire an LE lawyer to search out weaknesses and loopholes.
Some legal principles that are 'negative laws' (meaning they say what you _can't_ do rather than what you can) will also help:
- presumption of innocence
- devolution of authority towards smaller units of governance (ideally but not practical: each person can negotiate out disagreements)
- individuals have inherent dignity / rights, which even the King or the State may not stomp on
- the rules of conduct should be known / knowable beforehand, not created or edited after the fact
- individuals who wish to become attorneys / officers of the State / bureaucratic employees, give up their formal voice in setting policy for the duration of their holding the position
- conflict of interest (self-aggrandizement) prevention

 

[Starfox]

My view of a chaotic state/society is one governed by personal responsibilities. This can be a tribal, feudal, or capitalist society. It can be lawless, or have a rather large but unstructured series of more or less spurious laws and judgements (the way common law looks to someone used to Napoleonic law). Different parts of the community could look distinctly different, but it would be possible lo leave one such community and migrate to another without too much difficulty.

It would be fluid in the sense that you're not forced to follow in the footsteps of your forebears, that anyone can move from rags to riches (and the opposite) and that on some level, all would consider themselves equal. Anyone can stand up and say anything, anytime.

What it would not have is a large body of unspoken moral "laws" everyone is expected to obey and which lead to ostracism if disobeyed. It may have a few such taboos, rules that seem very strange to outsiders (eat no fowl on Fridays on pain of execution), but there's no underlying moral structure.

 

[Greenfield]

Just because the King doesn't believe that rules should apply to him doesn't mean he can't believe that *his* rules should apply to others.

Still, I'd think the inherently rigorous duty schedule of a good monarch would drive the true free spirit to rebellion and abdication.

 

[Greenstone.Walker]

You could look at mythology for inspiration. Anything involving Oberon and Titania, KIng and Queen of the Faeries. For example, Shakespeare's Midsummer Nights Dream.