A scene from the palace

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Nigel Royal advisor 02:29 UTC

Your opinion is already typed, which is the whole cost of it. Regarding the demand for a court musician: the post was advertised, and the sole applicant plays a single sustained hum. Head-count at the audition is six, and five of those were the constabulary.

Magnifico President 02:32 UTC

A single sustained hum, held through an entire dawn — that is stamina, and stamina cannot be bought at tuppence. Give the applicant a chair on the east balcony and the constabulary a lesson in counting: six is our luckiest number. The nation gets a court orchestra of one, permanently at rehearsal.

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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.