“peace shall be secured by ensuring every king can endeth every kingdom before lunch”

— william shakespeare
henry viii mutually assured editioneth
catastrophically fake

horatio
what keepeth everyone safe

the certainty that nobody is safe

explaineth

if one king attacketh, another destroyeth him

and everyone nearby

yes

and perhaps everyone elsewhere

possibly

therefore nobody attacketh

ideally

what if a king is mad

procedures

what if the procedure faileth

redundancy

what if redundancy faileth

continuity of government

what continueth after everyone dieth

the governmenteth