It was the wrong decision, I think, to kill her in the first place. Bringing her back would, I also think, just make it worse.
That's the first thing to remember. The second thing to remember is that many people on Stratics, if not in the game proper, will find a reason to hate whomever they put up. And the third is that whomever we get has to be with us for the foreseeable future. That means that probably there should be no evil dictatorships for a number of years.
Here are the viable options as I see them.
Option One: Player-run governments, differs by shard. No. Just no.
Option Two: Bring back some NPC from Ultima's or UO's past. Dupre would be a good choice, lots of people would rally around him. Shamino, Mariah. You get the idea. Please not a Baron Levonshire (am I getting that name right?) type figure.
Option Three: New Ruling Council. I'd suggest mostly staffing it with the surviving NPCs from Ultima/UO lore, such as Shamino and Dupre and Geoffrey. Rounding it out with some new NPCs and EM-played NPCs. The two primary characters of the GL EMs would be great on the Ruling Council.
Option Four: No central government, or rather an extremely minimal one, one with no particular head. Just a small, central bureaucracy that does stuff like collect just enough taxes to keep itself alive, and pull together a smattering of resources to handle grave, national threats, and keep a minimal centralized Guard, intelligence, and diplomatic presences. A minimal government by the surviving bureaucrats, ruling ad hoc. Most political activity recedes back to the towns. This is probably the least viable of the viable options.
Option Five: Takeover by a foreign power. Queen Zhah would be good. The Empress of Tokuno would be weird given that she's never really been developed in the official fiction. Or the Mayor of Luna. (On the latter: No. No. No.) A major problem of course is how to get people to go along with it?
-Galen's player