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Originally Posted by ak_aramis
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.
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I wasn't thinking of a persim actually ruling so much as one filling the ceremonial role. Ruthlessness would be irrelevant to the point.
One problem I can see though is in the dispensing of honors. It would be awfully hard for a persim to do it.