Decide
Governing
Governing adjective - Responsible for making and enforcing rules and laws.
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Decide and governing are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Decide" instead a verb "Governing".
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In David Weber's Heirs of Empire, the third Empire from the Ashes book, the Lost Colony natives of Pardal decide that the stranded off-world protagonists are angels, which does not sit well with the repressive theocracy governing the planet; the end result is a full-scale religious war.
Source: God Guise -
A Lawful Neutral character strongly supports an authority, a governing body, or a personal set of principles and doesn't care much about good or evil — this makes them prone to both Blind Obedience and doing what they decide needs to be done.
Source: Lawful Stupid
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