Another key character is Corporal Carrot, who (spoiler) is the legitimate heir to the throne, and is widely suspected/known as such. He has genuine kingly qualities and occassionally steps up informally to work his charm, but *never claims the throne* and is loyal to rule of law
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If you like James Scott’s anarchist model (the art of being ungoverned), Vetinari embodies the closest thing possible to practical ungovernance in a technologically complex society. The protector of the illegible against illegibility. Keeper of goose that lays golden eggs for all
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A pragmatist who resists both progressive and reactionary utopianism but not as a direct ideological adversary to utopian instincts. But by simply accepting the existence of utopians of all sorts and positioning oneself as a foil to all of them, arranging them in a balance.
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That’s how you solve for muddling through and slouching towards utopia in a complex world. That’s how you keep things boring and protect normalcy during the weirdest of weird times (which is all the time in Discworld).
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this is pretty much how Commonwealth constitutional monarchies (and Japan) work in the modern day, with the added improvement that the empty throne is notionally occupied
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you also need a mechanism for peaceful exchange of power to give the (inevitable!) opponents of the current de facto ruler an alternative to bloody civil war
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This is exactly why Australia has pretty good governance, all told. The head of state is an absent monarch, and her local representative doesn’t make any attempts to exert influence in her name.
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