...I am not the right mare to ask. [For a good many reasons. She should probably not be a princess at all, if she held herself to her own standards. But that is hardly a new revelation.]

But young Cadenza will be a good Empress, and our other closest neighbors - the dragons and griffons - still rule themselves well. Equestria was ruled by a most cruel tyrant once, and we have never since been a nation to stand by while others suffer.