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3. Named for the Company director, incidentally. The King of Kings approves the Company Liaison, but he is chosen by and from the Council of Regional Governors, who are themselves elected by the leading Company merchants in every area after the death or retirement of their predecessor.

Company property may technically be held in the name of the king, but it's being run by and for merchants with big egos and bottom-line attitudes. They aren't going to want some ne'er-do-well royal nephew running their affairs -- this is business, by Christ United! They'll send their first-born sons off to fight under officers appointed by the king, but their cash?

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