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I don't know if I should be trusted with that kind of power. Though [...] I think that I'd want to be a good king. One that cared about his people and tried to protect them and do right by them. I'd hope that's the goal of most leaders, but I guess it's not always the case.
That's the kind of king Nikolai wants to be. The whole reason he wanted to be king was because he spent so much time with the people of Ravka and saw how they were overlooked and how they suffered. He wanted to provide for them and turn the monarchy into something good, rather than just constant parties and decisions being made only to benefit the upperclass that already had so much while the lower went hungry.