I guess I’ll eventually add a page to explain this further, but I might as well explain in a post just “Who is Demerzel and why I am using it”:

Here’s the real basic info (the what/who) from Wikipedia.org–with no link love of course):

Daneel is a Robot built by Roj Nemennuh Sarton and Han Fastolfe, who are Spacer roboticists from the planet Aurora, in the year 4920 AD. Unlike many robots of the period, Daneel is constructed to be virtually indistinguishable from a human being (an android) and was the first of the humanoid robots.

[R. Daneel Olivaw] manipulates the galaxy with the help of his many robot allies. He sets up both the Galactic Empire and Gaia in order to create a society that does not need robots. Under the guise of Eto Demerzel, he becomes the first minister to galactic Emperor Cleon I and Stanel VI.

R. Daneel Olivaw is a common theme around Asimov books and I actually used Demerzel consistently instead of Daneel Olivaw since I read Asimov books out of order unfortunately (Foundation Series first followed by his Robot Series). Nonetheless, what I enjoyed about Demerzel/Daneel Olivaw is his concern for humanity as a whole (even if predicated entirely on mathematics) precisely on the Three Laws of Robotics (plus the Zeroth Law):

  1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
  2. A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
  3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Later, Asimov added the Zeroth Law: “A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm”; the rest of the laws are modified sequentially to acknowledge this.

These concepts are essentially what I grew up upon and oftentimes have a world view stemming from that.