User blog comment:DYBAD/Character Sheet/@comment-4867780-20180823131418/@comment-4867780-20180830114329

Thank you all the more ^ ^

Crapsack planes wouldn't be much fun adventuring in, so Lawrence would probably not visit them at all, and if he does stumble upon one during his travels he would likely just absorb the whole thing and put the extra resource to better use, like creating vast new territories for his extraplanar descendants to colonize and expand on when their native one is nearing its demographic limits and preexisting opportunities are insufficient.

Actual deities shape their territory and population in their image, in much the same way real-life believers shape their gods according to their needs and worldview, so I can't really imagine how you would end up with a polar opposite situation, unless some sort of cosmic anomaly radically altered the classical equation.

It is the nature of power to attract the kind of people who shouldn't have it, that's a serious problem there is unfortunately no answer to in the real world. And since their functions grant leaders access to the necessary means to secure their position, and bad ones in particular are willing to do whatever it takes for this purpose, by the time the scoundrels show their true colors deposing them has become a really difficult and dangerous challenge.

So Lawrence nails them himself, and leaves the punishing to the people whose trust they betrayed. Minimal trouble, maximal justice ^ ^ New rulers are for the people to appoint, and seeing what happened to the previous, there is bound to be a lot less assholes among the candidates after each example. If there was such a competent higher authority keeping an eye on real-life politics, you can be certain our world would be a very different place.

Indeed ! A very unusual and interesting middle-ground smoothly in tune with his character, respecting each plane's cosmic order while beautifully improving upon it :)