Hm, I had thought we ran on merit? I know that was a point of pride in past votes, but I don't remember that ever being stated in text, so...
We didn't or we couldn't have gotten the series of incompetent warrior-chiefs whose
mainsole claim to fame was "being really good at fighting from a chariot".
We have a system which
systematically deselects bad candidates.
This is our political progression track:
Chief route:
-Be appointed the heir of a village chief by the village council.
-Train for 5-10 years under the chief and his advisors, then become Village chief.
-Be appointed the heir of a province governor by the province's advisory council if you demonstrate enough competence as village chief, or be dropped from the selection process if you don't and stay as village chief for life.
-Train for another 5-10 years under the old governor and his advisors, then become Province governor.
-Be appointed the heir of the king by the royal advisory council if you demonstrate enough competence as province governor, including policies.
-Train for another 5-10 years under the old king and his advisors, then become King.
Advisor route(e.g. War):
-Be elected to village warrior representative by the warriors of the village.
-Work as representative for the village until you gain enough favors and reputation with the other warrior representatives of your province. Your job here is mainly patrols and training.
-Be elected to provincial warrior representative by the warriors representatives of your province.
-Work as provincial warleader until you gain enough favors and reputation with the warrior representatives of the country. Your job here includes higher strategy and policy.
-Be elected to royal warleader by the provincial warleaders
-Work as royal warleader until you gain enough credit that the royal council elects you to be royal heir, and then train for 5-10 years before becoming king.
Shaman route:
-Represent your local clinic to the provincial council.
-Represent your province main holy site to the royal council
-Get enough political credit to somehow get elected by your peers on the royal council as royal heir despite being outside the system of favors.
Allowing for crossing the tracks...you should realize there's a reason he's already been repeatedly snubbed: Because despite great personal charisma, his policy conflicts with current policy. And the chiefs are nervous because their choice is:
-Elect him to King, watch the work of the past three generations go down the drain.
-Don't elect him to King, watch his followers make a fuss.
We already set this precedent through the last miniturn. He spent his time fully setting up a new province, and with a possible war and trade disruption looming, having him as king would be perfect.
Humility - Not all Heroes should be King
But they might feel their issues were not addressed, and they've already become intergenerational. We might see something like the rise of a 'faction' even if he dies.
Or they could die out. Depends on our luck, really.
Naturally. This is a political movement But their support will be undermined greatly if we resolve the crisis,
as we are already on track to. It's hard to say that "these new ways are screwing everything up" when it's clear everything is functioning and now they are the disharmonious ones.