I got something very close to that once, without the player actually putting it into so many words. One of the PCs was playing the heir to an Imperial Barony. Although he didn't have any formal governmental authority (or else he couldn't have been part of a "standard" adventuring party), his player roleplayed his extremely-high social standing with . . . substantial verve. I was using the old Beltstrike setting and this player decided to help the independent belters in Bowman set up a system government. Of course, Ling Standard Products objected to this plan. So the player asked the captain of an IN cruiser that happened to pass through the system to dinner one evening . . . and asked to "borrow" a platoon of marines and a couple of dropships, to provide increased security for the planned Constitutional Convention.

Another player (one new to both our group and to Traveller in general) laughed at loud at hearing this and scoffed, "Yeah. Right. He can't do that. Nobody can 'borrow' Marines."

I looked over at him and replied, "Well, actually, *he* can."