If there are laws in the way, change them. Specific titles like these are very cool. Far from the generic stuff like count and duke.
Why that title, though?
This title specifically reflects how I feel about how Chanku zealously defended me and this community during the Lazarus Constitutional Convention.
I've been trying to figure out how to explain what happened in a way that doesn't reopen the painful experience that I went through in the process. Early in the convention, I was asked to join the convention's Council of Natives, whose purpose was to vet people wanting to join the convention to make sure they had been actual natives before. Apparently, I rubbed some prominent people the wrong way in my defense of certain unpopular individuals that others in the council didn't want in, and when IC slander failed to deter me, the powers that be resorted to OOC slander to remove me from the IC position, claiming that I had been involved in OOC misbehaviour.
In NationStates lango, the accusation of "OOC misbehavior" means some kind of action that goes beyond the pale and probably warrants your removal from any and all communities involved with it entirely; things like sexual harassment, doxxing, hacking, etc. But I had done none of those things...their 'evidence' was a log from the public #wintreath channel from back in 2014 that involved me joking around in a slightly racy discussion with several other people, which by the standards of that time wasn't anything remarkable or unusual. However, they went on to claim that because it was a public channel which minors could access, that it counted as OOC misbehaviour.
To be honest, I had expected that I would be removed from the Council, but I had no idea that people would resort to this in order to do so, and I was utterly unprepared to respond to it. Just the claim devastated me for a long while after that, and it was the absolute lowest point in my time on NS. In the resulting argument in the Lazarus Discord, I should have personally defended myself, my character, and this community, but I was too shocked and upset to.
But Chanku did...he not only defended me and my character, but also defended this region and its community, past and present. He did so without regard for his own standing or popularity in that region, incurring the anger of many prominent people in the process. He went through all that trouble and effort not just because we're friends (you all know he has no trouble confronting me when he feels I'm in the wrong), but because he felt it was the right thing to do, and that's who Chanku is...someone who will fight to the end for what he believes is right. On a personal level, I can't tell you how...protected I felt at the time it was going on, when I was too upset to protect myself, and how comforting it was and still is to know that he has my (and our) back when we're being wronged.
That wasn't the end of it...later on when that reasoning ultimately didn't fly, they apparently changed their mind and decided I had actually been removed because accepting Govindia into this community showed that I wasn't a good judge of character (a swipe at the many people in the community who supported and voted to allow him to remain in the community for many years), and still later on there was also some slander regarding my motives in founding Wintreath to begin with, but in each case Chanku was there to forcibly set the record straight and defend that community decision, even though he himself had no love for Gov.
I understand that the justification for this specific title was probably unclear without elaborating on what exactly he did, but I didn't elaborate further in the commendation because I wasn't sure how to without making it more emotional than a piece of legislation probably should be, and to be honest it's still tough to go back through what happened...thinking about it still makes my stomach churn. For me, the selection of this title is personal based on my experiences with what happened, because I feel like he truly stood before corruption and wickedness and didn't falter in his defense...he truly championed this just community.
I hope that clears up why this specific title and why I feel the Chanku is uniquely deserving of it.