Except a transition did take place. Check our titles. Check our official name. Check our government election system. Check our territory. Check our stats color. I'm working on a new banner. Check our noble list.
There HAS been a government change; a total break.
You lost the nobles and territory for unrelated reasons. Title changes can be made at whim. Same as banner changes, although you've yet to even change that. None of those things are indicative of a government change.
Ultimately, you are roleplaying a situation that isn't represented by game mechanics and so demanding that the game mechanics be thwarted to conform to your roleplaying because otherwise there exists dissonance between the game mechanics and your roleplaying. It would be impractical for game mechanics to be thwarted whenever a roleplayed circumstance contradicted them, so your demands are unreasonable. You must play by everyone else's rules and bring your roleplays into line with what you can accomplish mechanically, so that there exists no contradiction.
