Emperors tend to have absolute power by definition. In fact, if you wish to be realistic, she should be able to kill any of her minions in the Throne room with a simple "execute" command.

If you rebel, you usually lose your life in medieval history, you know.

But in real life you can also just assassinate the ruler you don't like. Which happened a lot in Russia and in other countries. In case of CF it does nothing, obviously

So current situation is pretty realistic, but not ideal, of course.

И танец этот нескончаем...