Victor von Doom seemed deeply unhappy because his monarch still refused to appear in any public setting other than the battlefield—the definition of "battlefield" included United Nations Headquarters in Manhattan. Yet this put the countries receiving state visits at ease, because to this day, the world did not know the name of Latveria's monarch and could not use a definite form of address when drafting announcements. Moreover, official news media were not especially willing to photograph the Emperor of Latveria. He was a giant clad in Golden Power Armor, and whenever he stood beside their own leaders, everyone looked particularly short, invisibly damaging the nation's image.
The Emperor of Latveria was truly an unfathomable figure.
According to onlookers who had seen him in Vienna or New York, whenever the Emperor of Latveria appeared, everyone's souls were involuntarily shaken by his majesty and radiance, as though he were some supreme being rather than a mortal. Some believed this was a supernatural phenomenon and thus harbored doubts about the nation established by the Emperor of Latveria. Others privately consulted religious texts, trying to find an answer within them. The Emperor of Latveria seemed to have considered this issue as well, so during secret meetings, he removed his Power Armor and changed into ordinary clothes, without displaying that powerful charisma capable of influencing others.
In fact, when Victor von Doom declined to sit at the head of the negotiating table and instead took a secondary seat, everyone knew that he was not the one calling the shots in these secret agreement negotiations. There was only one person of higher status than the Regent of Latveria: the Emperor of Latveria. The Emperor who entered the conference room was the tall young man they had previously seen among the delegation, the one who had not