@Dachs: Did I mention that the 40-hour week and 8-hour day had an overtime payment thing?
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The Russian Tsar, from a quickly-set up wooden stage in St. Petersburg's Palace Square, told the people about the patterns of expansion that his predecessors had set up before him, but he found out soon enough that it was not a very good idea or excuse. He thought he had support from the people, and that this was just a big misunderstanding, but he was clearly wrong. Before the end of his speech, the crowd had silenced him with deafening roars and a daring few even began throwing rocks wrapped in old underwear at his Imperial person.
He furiously tried to shut up the mob, but the small band of armed guards were not enough to suppress the people. When the great crowd was too close for comfort, with people waving their arms, pickets, and picket fences, he ran in cowardice towards the nearest building, flanked by his guard. Fortunately for him, the rocks had stopped flying in his direction. Unfortunately, those were replaced by a few crude incendiary weapons. It was not a violent revolution but the antics of some half-wit within the demonstrators' ranks, who was executed immediately afterwards.
In the end, he was "ruling" the state from his recovery bed, unable to do anything with the few painful burns he had sustained. He was lucky enough to survive the the small fire that was set upon his hastily-assembled stage, but his clothes were not. To the greatest of luck, his agents managed to catch the members of the Press who managed to take a few highly embarrassing shots of hims running while undressing his burning suit. The negatives were burned, but no further censorship was done.
The State Duma and the Prime Minister had assumed control of affairs from that point on. "By the blessing of the Tsar," the Prime Minister of Russia, whose name escapes me at the moment (who?), was now the de facto chief executive power within the Russian system. The rest of the Duma began revamping the old policies that had thoroughly shamed the Tsar. By popular vote by the state representatives, policies and projects that were not beneficial to the state were stamped out, beneficial ones kept, and new ones made, things which the Tsar in his shortsightedness overlooked.
The aggressive plans of the Tsar were booted out and the generals were tasked to make defensive plans instead. Of course, this came to the disappointment to the imperialists and expansionists, but compromises had to be made for a strong and solid state. Borders were made into secure positions instead of platforms of invasions, and Russia was on the defensive mode as the global war that was threatening to break loose at any moment loomed.
The Russian Empire had turned into a democracy almost overnight, with the Tsar afraid and injured. A few disliked the idea, but, as Machiavelli did say, the few cannot hope to challenge the multitude.
. I could have sworn Thy would have sued for peace and avoided a long, drawn out affair like every other NES 
. Thy knows that as I've told him time after time. He can play that 'attack' card all he wants 
