I actually enjoy RPing players with pathetic stats as much as good ones. If your automatic preconception behind the game is to have successful characters, then i don't think you're getting as much out of it as you could. I have one charie who is both very weak and an awkward fighter and hunter so it gave me an reason to RP him in a way I would have never thought to do otherwise.
I've also met other leaders like the one you are discribing where everything is given to them and they feel the reprocusions. My advice, figure out your leader's personality and role with it. If he/she is that clumbsy, then maybe you as a player could try to make things fall apart and see how long it takes for someone else to de-thrown or assassinate you. As a player, running a city into the ground or getting yourself exicuted is as good a goal to set as making it prosper or living a long life

Who knows maybe you can even get yourself exciled, imagine how much fun it would be to play an outcast ruler turned to nothing.
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