What do you mean "ew politics"??? The story has been about politics from the fucking start?? They literally started with a monarchy, showed its nasty ruler doing nasty shit, had a whole coup that ended with his death and a reform from ground up???
Where you not reading??? Or is it because the story was in a fantasy setting that you didn't grasp the actual fucking plot??
No, I think it's cause you guys like to separate fiction from reality so much that the mere mention of a realistic concept like democracy gets y'all all huffy and puffy ┑( ̄Д  ̄)┍