Token Monarchs are usually quite good - partly because it's easy-if-grueling work, partly because they're so easy to fire. But anyone who wishes for a non-toke

Token Monarchs are usually quite good - partly because it's easy-if-grueling work, partly because they're so easy to fire. But anyone who wishes for a non-token monarch needs to grow up and read some history. Pretty much every country in Europe is a former non-token-monarchy, and they got that way because those non-token monarchs were extremely bad rulers.