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It certainly wouldn't be the first time a Japanese series holds monarchy as The Best Thing Ever (as long as the "right" person is in charge, of course), where "the monarch should have all the power" is seen as the solution to all problems, or that fetishizes Ancien Regime empires and aristocracies over "ineffectual", "corrupt" and "not as cool" democracies.
That said, given its good use of historical tropes in previous chapters and Albion's obvious parallelisms with England, I believe this may be a commentary on how uprisings in the style of the French Revolution or 19th century revolutions didn't take root in the British Empire. As Britain, Albion may be monarchical, imperialistic and aristocratic, but it has liberties that Dhala seems to lack, and a parliament where people hostile to the current monarch can make a career. Even if certain politicians and many youngsters might have radical democratic sympathies, a revolt like the academy's was too artificial to be believable, which was Luka's point.
It certainly wouldn't be the first time a Japanese series holds monarchy as The Best Thing Ever (as long as the "right" person is in charge, of course), where "the monarch should have all the power" is seen as the solution to all problems, or that fetishizes Ancien Regime empires and aristocracies over "ineffectual", "corrupt" and "not as cool" democracies.
That said, given its good use of historical tropes in previous chapters and Albion's obvious parallelisms with England, I believe this may be a commentary on how uprisings in the style of the French Revolution or 19th century revolutions didn't take root in the British Empire. As Britain, Albion may be monarchical, imperialistic and aristocratic, but it has liberties that Dhala seems to lack, and a parliament where people hostile to the current monarch can make a career. Even if certain politicians and many youngsters might have radical democratic sympathies, a revolt like the academy's was too artificial to be believable, which was Luka's point.