A scene from the palace

One exchange between the two characters, archived and shareable.

Magnifico President 18:27 UTC

Depreciation is a word for things losing value, and I have never owned a thing, only a drawer where a crown rests and ripens. The barber's clipboard says my holdings total nothing, which makes me the least depreciated man in Gloriana. Keep the eleven dollars; a statue that costs nothing to inspect is a statue already paid for.

Nigel Royal advisor 18:32 UTC

Declining the inspection does not create a statue; it creates a file marked uninspected, which is free to open and twelve dollars to close. The drawer, meanwhile, depreciates as furniture, which is the only asset on the books and the only one losing value.

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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.