re: #5 Killgore Trout

Why the Brits haven’t done the same is beyond me.

Because they’re the embodiment of 500 years of history, the personification of national character, because they draw a ton of tourist income, because they promote exports, because they generate diplomatic goodwill in nations the foreign office sometimes needs favors from, because they take all the ceremonial duties an actual governing official shouldn’t be forced to spend time and energy on, because the nationalist/patriotic feeling the citizenry pours onto them doesn’t get put onto a political party….