You don't have to do it all, you just have to do one or two of them well. Oligarch doesn't have lordships to give out and the government members are active and do a good job so dificult to replace (even those which are elected). All we give them is a fun war and roleplaying.
Something I have been pushing a lot though, which I think especially council members should do to make the game more fun, is to share almost everything public. We're discussing military plans in public, we're discussing conversations with foreign rulers etc in public, we try to get people involved, or simply spout some bull!@#$ on our enemies saying we'll crush them blablabla. Way too many realms do many of these things in special councils, which made sense 10 years ago. First off you had so many nobles and so many messages a day, receiving 20 more a day would be annoying to some. Also with all those chars you had far more spies, which you hardly see anymore these days with 2 char limit removed. Now you see realms where most knights and sometimes even Lords receive maybe one real message a day, but there is a whole lively discussion in the realm's council, the military council or whatever.
You can make almost everything public in your realm as council member, it won't harm your realm so much. When in doubt? Just share it!
This. A thousand times, this. ^
