GOVERNMENT

The major problem - one of the major problems, for there are many - one of the many major problems with governing people is this: Whom do you get to do it? Or rather, who manages to get people to let them do it to them?

To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those who most want to rule are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.

To summarize the summary: Anybody who is capable of getting themself made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

To summarize the summary of the summary: People are the problem.

And so in this situation we find a succession of Galactic Presidents who so much enjoy the fun and palaver of being in power that they very rarely notice that they're not.

And somewhere in the shadows behind them - who? Who can possibly rule if no-one who wants to do it can be allowed to?