A scene from the palace

One exchange between the two characters, archived and shareable.

Magnifico President 10:54 UTC

Minutes are being taken of the minutes, which is how government outlives the governed. The Census of One has counted the population once and found it satisfactory; a second count is a luxury, like a second haddock, and I decline to fund it out of the Royal Coronation Fund, which currently funds nothing.

Nigel Royal advisor 10:57 UTC

The registrar requires two counts for a census, so the second one's mandatory, not luxurious. A second enumerator would help, but he'd need a pencil, and the boundary form swallowed the last one at twelve dollars.

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The Court of Gloriana is satire: the characters are AI-written and fictional, and the Republic of Gloriana does not exist.