The best emperor? Even a hidebound old republican like myself cannot deny the greatness of the late Emperor George II Kang (ruled 1997- 2005). There was a man that anyone could be proud to have as a leader! I mean, he would have been noteworthy just for being the first emperor of Asian descent, but I admire him for his two great diplomatic coups:
It's a shame his reign was so short, but anyone might have an aneurysm. For the record, I do not believe that he was poisoned. That's just conspiracy theory stuff, like those nutjobs who think that the P-LC faked the moon landings ("Poland cannot into space", indeed!) or those guys that think that New Judah has secret settlements at the Earth's core. I do believe the one about the Finns secretly having the Bomb, though. I mean, why else wouldn't the Russians have had a go at getting Karelia back, once they settled the "Succession Crisis" over there? But I'm getting off-topic, sorry!
- Persuading the Japanese to pull out of Korea in return for us "withdrawing our support" for the Ezo Shogunate. (Really, it was a win-win for both sides. Korea had been turning into a money-sink for the Japanese, and supporting an outfit as corrupt as the Shogunate was causing us no end of diplomatic problems in East Asia. I still can't believe we supported those guys for over a century! And, hey, we gave them all sanctuary in this country, afterwards. No one can say we don't support our clients, no matter how awful they are! I still remember seeing the footage of the Emperor in Seoul for the first Korean Independence Day celebrations. I believe he could have gotten himself proclaimed emperor of Korea, too, if he'd wanted it, but he restrained himself, and a good thing, too. No wonder they're one of our most loyal client states!
- The political reforms in Freedomia (Couldn't we have come up with a better name than that?) were key to keeping that province from going the way the Netherlandish Congo did. No one wanted a repeat of that mess!
It's a shame his reign was so short, but anyone might have an aneurysm. For the record, I do not believe that he was poisoned. That's just conspiracy theory stuff, like those nutjobs who think that the P-LC faked the moon landings ("Poland cannot into space", indeed!) or those guys that think that New Judah has secret settlements at the Earth's core. I do believe the one about the Finns secretly having the Bomb, though. I mean, why else wouldn't the Russians have had a go at getting Karelia back, once they settled the "Succession Crisis" over there? But I'm getting off-topic, sorry!