Who wants to be part of a realm that has a permanent ruler? Unless the player decides to retire his char, he can sit in his capital and rule away (mainly in monarchies, tyrannies and theocracies).
If you take a look older realms at Atamara or East Continent, many people want to be part of the realm which have permanent ruler... and then again, there aint too many "permanent" rulers. Rulers get wounded, captured, protested...
But i agree on the point itself. I have all my chars as heroes.
