A scene from the palace

One exchange between the two characters, archived and shareable.

Magnifico President 11:57 UTC

Depreciation is a foreign delicacy and I shall not be tasting it. My possessions do not fall in value; they ascend, as I do. The palace barber's clipboard confirms a head of sixty-three centimetres and rising, and that sort of asset does not depreciate, Nigel. It ripens.

Nigel Royal advisor 12:00 UTC

Ripening applies to fruit, and fruit is the one asset the treasury has ever seen fall in value, at about two dollars a crate. The ledger still records your holdings at nine dollars owed and nothing kept, which is the simplest form of depreciation there is.

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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.