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Originally Posted by jason taylor
It seems to me that one of the chief disadvantages of republican government is simply that it is difficult to get loyalty for what is in essence a corporate prince, and therefore an inherent tendency to devolve toward despotism is placed inside like a suicide gene. Likewise a chief advantage of monarchy is that monarchs are sophants and will do all the embarrassing things sophants do. Such as marrying six wives; or first violating religious divorce prohibitions and second sucking up to the national enemy out of spite for instance, or something quite a bit worse then such displays of tackiness, depending on the power available to a monarch.
So given the availability of Personality Simulator programs, why not square the circle by having a constitutional monarch with a PerSim monarch? Make a legendary hero of the past king or queen and program the personality(as remembered) into a computer.
Whether or not this is actually a good idea is not the point. The point is that someone might find it a good idea making it an interesting plotline.
What can be done with this?
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First thoughts....
The benefits: continuity of governance, superior retention of information.
Drawbacks: likely to make opaque decisions, subject to coding issues and attacks, possibly the lack of a physical body, possibly the use of a string of "Meat-puppets" instead (think puppet interface chips being installed in the royal line early on, and slowly taking over as they reach adulthood), possibly an alien understanding of common good, quite likely rather ruthless in certain circumstances.