A Regency In Monaco

Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader reads on the news wires that Prince Albert is assuming the duties of Regent for his father, Prince Ranier III of Monaco.

This must mean that Prince Ranier is not doing well at all. Your Maximum Leader - a monarchist at heart - will keep the Prince in his thoughts.

You know something my minions... Being Prince of Monaco doesn't seem to be a bad gig. Frankly, if your Maximum Leader's sights weren't set a little higher (it is the Mike WORLD Order after all) he doesn't think he'd mind being the pseudo-benevolent autocrat of a tiny European or tropically located nation-lette. A small island to rule... A few square miles of prime beach-front nation-dom... The ancient and historic enclave in a major city... Or even a free and independent city-state...

No not a bad gig at all...

Indeed. Perhaps your Maximum Leader should find some obsure claim in his ancestry to be the last Paleologus alive and claim the throne of Byzantium. (Highly unlikely as his ancestry is actually Anglo-Scottish... But Anna Anderson somehow made it stick for years.) Hell, your Maximum Leader bets that with enough cajoling he could convince the Turks and the EU to allow him to set up Istanbul/Constantinople/Byzantium as his own little Empire. He'd declare himself Emperor Michael IX. Sure he'd have to become an Orthodox Christian and all - but, like the Stuarts and their closet Catholicism, it would be a small price to pay for the throne. He might also have to learn Turkish and Greek. Humm... That might complicate matters somewhat...

Carry on.