Hemmings? Oh was that the guy who basically went completely crazy and flipped out?
That was weird. Like actually pretty weird.
As for the stagnation, yeah, IDK how you are going to break up the Empire without major outside or natural forces severely weakening it. Too bad we can't have mongol invasions
A few people have run on the platform of (OOC: Let's burn it down and shake things up with no real IC justification!" but that always kinds of fails.