Explanation: In the tumultuous Late Empire, sometimes, being a completely incompetent, easily manipulated figurehead is safer than actually doing anything for the good of the Roman people. The Emperor Honorius managed to reign over a rapidly declining Western Empire, seeing the city of Rome sacked for the first time in almost a thousand years, one of the last competent generals in the West executed by court intrigues, and the near-total collapse of the territorial integrity of the Western Empire.
But at least his favorite chicken (also named Rome) was not lost when the city fell!