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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 2280284" data-attributes="member: 463">Re Shogun - Thrin would love for Ulfius to become Shogun ("Marshall" or similar) to a figurehead Emperor.  The Japanese analogy is interesting, thanks, though my political stuff in the game comes more from Machiavelli.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  - Tarkane to a large extent is based off Mussolini.Re Electors - in the Norse part of my campaign world King Sigurd of Trafalgis was chosen as king by a Council of Jarls in just this fashion, I guess the Elector system might have had Norse/Teutonic roots?  That would explain why it seems so un-Roman.  The Jarls of Trafalgis would demand the right to name the next king after Sigurd too, good point to bear in mind...In the Overkingdom by contrast there's pretty much a void when it comes to high-level representative institutions, it's a post-colonial state (part of a foreign power the Albine Empire for nearly 200 years, now independent again) and you could say the people are struggling to work out a workable form of governance.  Tarkane harks back to ancient times (the Roman-style Old Imarran Empire) and wants a centralised hereditary autocracy as the new Imarran Empire, but the current situation is far more decentralised and feudal.</blockquote>

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