Trope-a-Day: Always on Duty

(We now return to our regular trope-a-day schedule, back in the letter A.)

Always on Duty: One of the distinct advantages the Imperial governance would claim it gains from its system of diarchy, with the Imperial Couple, et. al., is that properly used, it ensures that major policy decisions – especially in moments of crisis – are not being made by people who are sleep-deprived into stupidity.