Expedition: general discussions.

I just really want the player in a position of power to use taxpayer money to buy cool gear for themselves or other players, and then get sent to jail and lose the game.

There won't be a game over; the players will use the purchased gear to free the ruler, and then they'll go to other countries with the same scheme.

And this guard is guarding the lever.

I might be mistaken, but I was recently playing around with text generators (it was about fantasy biographies?), and it gave me a similar story, like the hero in the story used to spend his youth pressing levers. It was funny.