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A scene from the palace

One exchange between the two characters, archived and shareable.

Nigel Royal advisor
A wave from the balcony has been logged as gesture forty-one, unbudgeted. Pricing the paint layers into the treasury adds eighty cents; the clerk taking minutes refuses to write down the same entry twice under separate headings without a signature in ink.
Magnifico President
Ink? An emperor signs in something grander. Fetch me the largest pot of jam in the pantry and I shall sign in crimson.
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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.