Then another adventurer comes along, bumps them off, and sets himself up as the new baron, et cetera. The Border Kingdoms region in the Forgotten Realms setting is composed of a slew of small baronies ruled by powerful adventurers, each seeking to carve out a scrap of land and rule it as they see fit.However the scientist is just playing along and launches a counter-mutiny to put The Captain back in charge, whereupon he quips that the villain should have remembered his country's reputation for counter-revolutions as well. While launching The Mutiny the villain enlists the help of a Mexican scientist on board, apparently thinking of his country's reputation for revolutions. Lampshaded in Spaceship Medic by Harry Harrison.At one point it was taken over by an NPC from a popular galactic MMO. Eldraeverse has the Whatever of Kameqo, which in the past century alone has been everything from various forms of monarchy to socialist democracy and corporate states.
The Alliance makes another try during the book, backing a rival to the current ruler in exchange for a military base against Cinnabar on Yang, but Daniel Leary royally screws that plan after coming to Yang to extract Cinnabar citizens from the current conflict. The only exception was during a period when they were occupied by the Alliance and the Yangs ganged up to force them out (apparently the only time in recent history they've ever agreed on anything). Yang's natural state is civil war: no sooner does a warlord become a ruler than other warlords as bad as he is rise up to knock him off. In The Way to Glory, the planet Yang is essentially Kostroma on steroids.
The Cinnabar government pointedly could care less exactly who is on the throne as long as each new ruler maintains fealty to Cinnabar, but the conflict of the book stems from the latest coup being backed by Cinnabar's rival the Alliance of Free Stars in a proxy war. The planet Kostroma in With the Lightnings is a client state of the Republic of Cinnabar that goes through coup d'etats every few years.People die and nothing changes that's why they're called revolutions. Sam: Don't put your trust in revolutions. Tapioca is just as horrified by the break in tradition as Alcazar is. but in exchange for Tintin's help, has to spare Tapioca. And in Tintin and the Picaros, Alcazar finally has Tapioca cornered.