Joyous incompatible government system miscommunications! Darn republicans pretending to have kings.
Indeed. And Machiavel's too busy venting the death of his wife by rising mobs in Niselur to care about clarifying any of that or otherwise tending to political affairs.
A pity priest actions suck, though, and even going to a monster-infested region at occupied settings, and constantly causing unrest, does nothing more than merely maintain the region at occupied instead of letting it go back up. So anti-climactic.