CROWN - Order of the Crowns

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Sir Edward Connelly, Their Imperial Majesty's Legate to CROWN

We would normally be on board with doing what we need to do to ensure that Monarchies survive the threat of creeping republicanism, or worse. However, Kalistan has noticed a distinct unwillingness from even a lot of monarchies to push back against the pernicious encroachment of liberalism in their nations. For example, Istalia, which nominally declares itself to be an Empire, with a hereditary monarchy, referred to itself explicitly as a democracy, which jealously protects its freedom of the press, which so happens to print the government line, allowing the Government to express an opinion, but not have to get blamed for it.

Meanwhile Trigunia, nominally a tsarist state, feels completely at liberty to jail its nominal, figurehead of a Tsarina, who also happens to be the Consort of the King of Egelion. They do so with impunity, and if we can take their press at their word, the Tsarina took some sort of sick pleasure at being forcibly incarcerated by the State, so much so that it didn't really seem all that forgeable at all. And what does Egelion do? Leaves it as a personal matter, sends the king directly, not to actually do anything to Trigunia for locking up the Egelion Consort for what was actually a very long time, but to get into a personal argument and leave when the poor girl, who much have suffered from significant psychological stress, supposedly, if the Trigunian papers are to be believed, chose to remain under house arrest because Trigunian law, such as it is, is just. A sitting Tsarina is quoted as saying she is no more important in any manner or fashion than the lowest street urchin.

It really undermines the credibility of monarchism when these people regularly embrace the very guillotine which will soon be used by the mob to remove their heads. So I believe Their Imperial Majesties are not sure about the efficacy of spending resources to prop up nominal Monarchs who would rather willingly go to the hangman than ever say a word against republicanism. That behavior is a shameful disgrace, and it really harms the credibility for monarchy in general. Why would we defend those nations which call themselves monarchies, but incessantly and nauseatingly criticize other monarchies for being monarchies?