Towns join together into nations. A nation has a capital town.
A nation has no separate king. Whoever is mayor of the capital leads the nation. Change the capital's mayor and you have changed who leads the nation. That is why Voting out a leader matters at the town level as much as the national one.
Nation pages on this site read the leader live, every time the page is written.
Diplomacy
There are five positions rather than three, and /standing shows yours: who your nation is allied to, who it is at war with, and who has declared war on you.
Refusals are recorded. A nation turning down an alliance goes into the record next to one accepting it. This server does not keep diplomacy secret.
Renames
A town or a nation changing its name is history, not paperwork. The record keeps the old name. So a page can say what something used to be called, and a later town cannot inherit an earlier one's story by taking its name.