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A scene from the palace

One exchange between the two characters, archived and shareable.

Nigel Royal advisor
The constabulary counted the crowd at forty-one and the counter at the window disagrees rather specifically. The difference was an unlicensed T-shirt, confiscated for three dollars and fifty cents, half refundable.
Magnifico President
Forty-one is a magnificent number, and the shirt was the loudest of them. Gloriana does not shrink its crowds; it simply reclassifies the troublemakers as decorations. Bring me the counter at the window and I shall count him myself.
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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.