[busyrobot]

I propose we enterain the Republic idea, and refine it over the next while.

We have a vacuum of leadership right now - no (popular) King, a very new prince, a former King in limbo, we don't need to add to that a vacuum of no tested structure. We would surely collapse.

We should try the whole Republic or partial republic thing in a few weeks, hash out the system in the mean time (not just say 'yes Zurk/no Zurk) and work it out so it can be stable before implementing anything.

Our only hope for any new system to work is to make it flawless on paper, and then hope the chaos that occurs when it's practiced can be kept to a minimum. I don't want to sound alarmist, but there are many more systems that look good on paper than work when tried.

So, to start lets at least take the time to make it look good on paper, because if we can't do that, then there is no hope it will work.

Zurk, do post what you come up with, it's an intruging idea.