This author CANNOT write political characters or dialogues. I wish he improves in the future, but absolutely none of these characters are actually shrewd enough to be proper politicians, much less heads of state. They're all too honest and straight-forward, not even thinking deeper than face value; and when they do dig deeper than surface level into the mind of the other person, it's framed as something amazing. In this case, it's the complete opposite of the 8th son thing where absolutely everyone is political that it gets in the way of the story. Thankfully, this manga doesn't suffer the same problem in the opposite direction, since the author still knows how to write characters that feel like actual characters, unlike the 8th son thing.