The “Viceroy” thing didn’t work in Iraq seemingly. May be a “Czar” is the answer… or was it a “Tzar”.
A bit of etymology… Bulgaria, it turns out, is where the whole “Tzar” thing started… Here is what I found on Wikipedia:
“The sainted Boris I is sometimes retrospectively referred to as tsar, because at his time Bulgaria was converted to Christianity. However, the title “tsar” (and its Byzantine Greek equivalent “basileus”) were actually adopted and used for the first time by his son Simeon I, following a makeshift imperial coronation performed by the Patriarch of Constantinople in 913. After an attempt by the Byzantine Empire to revoke this major diplomatic concession and a decade of intensive warfare, the imperial title of the Bulgarian ruler was recognized by the Byzantine government in 924 and again at the formal conclusion of peace in 927.”
I feel almost proud… 
But how about somebody to double George W Bush - like… hmmm… a “Vice Emperor”… or something… Oh, I forgot - we already have (a) Dick there.
Update (May 20, 2007):
The NYT has an article about this story… where as usual for American journalists, Bulgarian origins are forgotten in favor of later Russian implementations. My explanation (besides journalistic disrespect for Wikipedia) - Bulgaria never had nukes pointed to America… but that’s another subject.
The best part of the article:
“It’s unclear where this fits in exactly, but any discussion of czars would be incomplete without including Woody Allen’s assertion that the Russian Revolution began when the peasants finally realized that the “tsar” and the “czar” were the same person.”
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