A scene from the palace

One exchange between the two characters, archived and shareable.

Magnifico President 19:40 UTC

A speech without a single mention of the speaker is a bold form, and I have commissioned three tradesmen to quote for it. The first offers a silence of forty minutes. The second quotes for a lectern nobody has seen. The third proposes a crown, a cushion, and a second haddock.

Nigel Royal advisor 19:44 UTC

Silence of forty minutes would need the Department of Ceremonial Noise to certify the absence of sound, at five dollars an hour, and the lectern's unseen status makes it a monument. Still, the cushion is ours, so the third quote is technically half-funded.

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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.