Royalty, the master society, is another society under psychopathic control. The best scenario for psychopaths cooperating, specifically with family. The best case it not great though. Royals are a fickle bunch, historically turning on each other in a way that seem inexplicable to most people. Sure some archaic or unknown rule is sited when they eat their own, but it’s just and cruel and random as it feels from outside.
Most moral agents don’t take royalty seriously as a moral force. They can be ethical, and ethical monarchs have existed, but they are the outliers, not the norm. A moral monarch is inherently locked in a psychopathic society, specifically their family. Most benevolent behavior from monarchs can be traced to forms of competition. The monarchs want to enjoy their better lifestyle, greater longevity and physical pleasures. In exchange they do their best to attack things that do (or may) threaten the more immediate health of their whole society. This has a predictable effect on technology as original improvements in any device or system often first appear to the socially minded as disruptions in the social or economic order.
It’s simple but important to explicitly point out the the royals are the ultimate masters of the ultimate authority, and you are just a slave or subject. This suits not only the psychopath as a royal, but many psychopaths of no status in the kingdom. Most roles are clearly defined with little change over a lifetime, making social behavior more predictable and scripted roles simpler to maintain. Also, it makes those of lower social status mere playthings to psychopaths hungering for social control satisfying the goals of protection, competition, and amusement.
How does a psychopathic family maintain control? The family or kin society is the largest society any psychopath can belong to. They do sometimes have feelings for close family that we can feel for anyone we meet. Not compassion such as an empath might feel but a biological yearning to impress or protect them. Family is the only group they ever have or ever can belong to. From their perspective their ‘love’ for each other is more sincere than the empathy other humans feel for each other. Because defaulting to trust is ubiquitous among most humans, they see it as cheap and useless. ‘Everybody has it so who would want it?’, they might ask. They take our honesty as proof of inferiority to the small and specific concern they share with their blood family. They obsess over the one considerate feeling for any other human being they actually have.
For the would be royal family, kin is the only super-aliance that could ever exist. Not only is it the largest, but the only society they can ever belong to. So of course they value the impression they leave on family more than any other. This indicates that royal families started with their most socially successful member legitimately (or maybe not) winning power. As their ability to support a larger organization grew they begin to appoint family members to positions of power. Not because they were superior or even because they could trust them, but because of the enormous social pressure psychopaths put on their own families to display loyalty under any conditions or under any abuse. Regardless of the empathic or psychopathic attributes of each member, this forces the family society into a psychopathic society. Valuing only each others status in the competition of displaying loyalty to the family.
Appointing sub-par family members to important roles or positions would be questioned as the practical failures pile up. It can threaten not only the psychopaths free ride on their more capable brethren, but the most successful member of the family’s status as well. So to avoid accusations of nepotism, accusations themselves receive the harshest punishment. The most successful family becomes above reproach. Royalty is not given to the family as an honor for outstanding duty, although that may be the ruse, but instead is implemented by the family itself as a security measure against a psychopathic family members unemployment. Probably initiated by one of the less successful family members at the start.
Since often royalty will interbreed or only breed with other royalty, and psychopaths breed faster than empaths, it’s easy to see how it’s only a matter of time before the highest member of the ruling family is a psychopath. Of course the new king (or queen) is considered infallible. Without the long term risk assessment (aka:conscience) of an empath, and with all logical suggestions being considered backtalk at best or high treason at the worst, it’s easy to see how many kingdoms so suddenly and catastrophically failed. Not only do royal monarchies have poor resistance to psychopathic control, their status as royals couldn’t exist without it.