Here's a fun exersize -read through what Mendicant/NoblesseChevaleresque has to say, but replace "Aurvandil" with "North Korea" and "Mendicant" with "Kim Jong Un", and "Nobles" with "Communist Party".
Rather my point.
Except he's advocating his position OOCly. Which has me simultaneously very amused and a wee bit concerned.
The problem is finding a successor that's just as good, should you truly have found the perfectly benevolent dictator.
The problem is that most historical dictators have gone mad. Finding a consistantly sane one beats the problem
No, the problem is they fail. And they're morally wrong to begin with. It's fun in a game, just like playing god-mode is fun in a game. But leaving the game and talking like in-game systems make sense out-of-game is like turning off god-mode, walking outside, and trying to alter the weather. You've made two major errors: external validity bias and self-delusion.
