"Since it's your idea we could have the design of your House - well, I guess you don't have one - on them. Do you have a symbol that's associated with you?"

"Not really. Sometimes coins have faces on them but it would be really weird to have my face on the currency here, it'd usually be the governor or a past governor's face."

"We can do the King's face," he says, and starts sketching. "Are they typically round?"

"Often, not always. My city-state has hexagons!"

"I'm tempted to do eight sides," he says, "and a Feanorian star on one side and the King's face on the other, but my cousins will be annoyed."

"What's a cousin and why will they be annoyed?"

"Cousins are - so if my brothers had children, and I had children, those children would be cousins. Mine would be annoyed because since there is nothing at stake in politics here we make big things out of minor ones."

"...Okay, but why is the star even a minor thing."

"It is the sign of my family - that is, my father and his children and any of their children. It is therefore not a very appropriate symbol for the whole realm, because that should be the sign of the King's family, which includes all the King's children and therefore my cousins."

"And the King doesn't have his own symbol?"

"He has several. It's contested. Because we have nothing better to do."

"You have politics games. Those sound like they might be fun."

"They are! They are one of my favorite pastimes. I should warn you that I never lose."

"What, never? And you still like them?"

"I am very fond of winning!"

"Winning's fun. I wanna try this game."

"Best played with four, should we find some friends or try it anyway?"

"I don't know, what are the extras for?"

So he explains the rules of Governor.

"If you know anybody who'd like to play - especially someone who'd be on my team even though you never lose - by all means invite them but I'd be just as happy to assume good faith on not meta-gaming the sabotage step."

"It'd put you at a bit of a disadvantage to not know your partner well. Let's two-person it."

"Sure."

So they play Governor all afternoon and evening. Someone brings them an elaborate eight-course dinner and they do not stop playing to eat.

This is such a good game.