How random can the connections be?
Personally, I'd focus on hats- and jobs that are defined by their hats (or crowns) to the point where the hat is the focus of power, at the expense of the person wearing it (ie, the crown as a symbol being overthrown, and incidentally chopping off the aristo's heads, which happen to be wearing them)
"On the top of the Crumpetty Tree
The Quangle Wangle sat,
But his face you could not see,
On account of his Beaver Hat."
The poem of course, has a much nicer outcome than the revolution. The Quangle Wangles hat becomes the basis of a community rather than the reverse. Of course, this is an incredibly lacking in detail, what with it being an unplanned response.
I suggest several weeks obsessing about nursery rhymes and the revolution (however dubious the connections!) and then throw in a few fish puns.
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