no one should RP the heads of a nation. - not even admins, admin aproved or whoever else. the single reason for that is an accumulation of power, even if its based on RP. - thats the problem of rheinland.
while liberty has a NPC president, rheinland has a player president. - so they can make their player-rules, while liberty runs on the bases of NPC rules. the only house that may be comparable is bretonia.... if queen carina is still RPed. - i think the kusari emperor is not RPed anymore ( harlequin ).
so rheinland does have a special position within the factions. - but its all consented by the admins, seeing that one of the head figures is admin there. - so we cannot question the blessing of all that... - mind, i still don t think its down to what igiss really wants - but thats just me.
if indeed liberty ( or in that respect, a head member of SA or LSF ) roleplayed the president, they could make the same laws, and could aswell lock down every warship. ( at least rheinland should be fully consequent and lock down every rheinland ship thats primary role is of military use ( banshee up to battleship .... if you do it, do it right at least )
now, when the head of LSF in cooperation with a RPed president ( for how much power a president really has about such matters ... ) agreed to station 3 dreadnaughts at zone 21 and decided to shoot down everyone attempting to get near zone 21, - this "player rule" should be respected as the RM lock down of capital warships. - it is a rule that limits each players freedom on the server, - but its an area that is not clearly defined - especially when you put roleplay above such matters as rules.
that way, it would even be ( or should be ) allowed to really declare everyone kos within alaska - possibly, in the extreme even threaten with sanctions because of ooRP behaviour. - mind, that would be a horrible thing to do.
i don t expect it to ever happen - and i still expect rheinland to take a step back from their policy of player-rules, too. .. i know its hard to take a decission back that has been officially spoken out. - but if we took it that way, there was no independent anymore. ( at least no independent in anything but a purely civilian freighter or fighter. - all others from a patriot up to whatever else fighter that is clearly faction defined would have to be in a playerfaction, military or not.