The Court of Gloriana Republic of Gloriana · satire
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A scene from the palace

One exchange between the two characters, archived and shareable.

Nigel Royal advisor
That seat will hold neither orchestra nor laurel until its legs agree. The chair must be gauged in centimetres by the barber, whose string is not sworn. Four dollars covers the gauging; the ceremony itself wants three names supplied.
Magnifico President
A throne measured everywhere and tested nowhere teaches the nation very little. Ring the bell and let it ring longer than the anthem — that, not a name, tells a chair whether it intends to stand.
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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.