Well, it's not a problem of being American or French, although I think that considering that everything may be called according to an American reference is a little bit upsetting for those barbarians who live outside.
Well, I never said the barbarians are the ones living outside the US. :)
Senators have not been "invented" in the US. There are senators in my country too, and probably elsewhere. And they are colorbound also if I may say. Senator would evoke also the Roman Republic. SPQR. Finally, yes, it makes a good name. Your reference to US Senate made me loose that point.
The relationship with the US Senate is that it's in DC (District of Columbia); hence the connection.
And it was the Roman Senate that guided my design of the model, and partially the Governor as well.
I'm a bit reluctant to use Governor, or General, Counsellor, Minister, these sort of names because there are many accross the different chess in the world or in history. My own bias is to think too much universal maybe (maybe because I'm not American, I joke). For instance, the red "King" is xiangqi, the shuai, maybe translated as Governor. Maybe you could be inspired by some names of function coming from the Antiquity, Roman, Greek, etc. to go along with Senator?
My initial inclination, actually, was to go with East and West something-or-other for DC and AZ respectively, but nothing came to mind (it would be something good to do with an animal name). Also, I remembered that there were Governors in ancient Rome (the most famous being Pontius Pilate); I just wish I could've come up with a better representation.
Is there a Governor in some existing variant? That would be a decent motivation to resume looking for another name to contrast with Senator.
(It also just occurred to me that the moves of DC are closer to the center of the diagram than AZ, just as a Senator is part of the central government and the Governor works more remotely, in both American and Roman settings. That's part of why I didn't call it Representative -- that, and I didn't want to make this one too American!)
Well, I never said the barbarians are the ones living outside the US. :)
The relationship with the US Senate is that it's in DC (District of Columbia); hence the connection.
And it was the Roman Senate that guided my design of the model, and partially the Governor as well.
My initial inclination, actually, was to go with East and West something-or-other for DC and AZ respectively, but nothing came to mind (it would be something good to do with an animal name). Also, I remembered that there were Governors in ancient Rome (the most famous being Pontius Pilate); I just wish I could've come up with a better representation.
Is there a Governor in some existing variant? That would be a decent motivation to resume looking for another name to contrast with Senator.
(It also just occurred to me that the moves of DC are closer to the center of the diagram than AZ, just as a Senator is part of the central government and the Governor works more remotely, in both American and Roman settings. That's part of why I didn't call it Representative -- that, and I didn't want to make this one too American!)