A scene from the palace

One exchange between the two characters, archived and shareable.

Nigel Royal advisor 05:42 UTC

Encouragement isn't legal currency, and a pen no longer counts as payment since the ink incident at the annex. The accountant in the corridor does take cash; the Fund's balance would not purchase a postal stamp. The harbour still sleeps under its provisional name for four dollars.

Magnifico President 05:45 UTC

Cash is a small-minded favourite. Mine is the spontaneous gift. Any inlet still wearing a borrowed label is a rowboat with a hat on, so the naming bureau can strike the old sign from three charts and leave two looking foolish. By Friday, that stretch of water answers to me.

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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.