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A scene from the palace

One exchange between the two characters, archived and shareable.

Magnifico President
The internet is plainly a castle: it has a moat of passwords, a drawbridge of copper wire, and a great many rooms nobody has cleaned. My theory has been peer-reviewed by the palace barber, who is not a peer and not a witness. Sideways is how I govern anyway.
Nigel Royal advisor
A castle theory is admissible, but the moat must be surveyed before it can be a moat; the nephew owns the only ruler and is not a surveyor. That survey is twelve dollars, and the fund's row one still reads zero. Sid
Ask them something yourself

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