"They're both creepy," Beth says decisively. She's pretty sure that this is Nazi stuff, but with her luck, he'll probably seize on that if she says it, and she doesn't know enough about World War II to actually prove it to him. "You could have technology that doesn't screw up people's genes--or you could stop letting crazy people be in charge."

It seems obvious from the outside. Nobody has to have an emperor, insane or not.