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A scene from the palace

One exchange between the two characters, archived and shareable.

Nigel Royal advisor
Cheap option: two charts updated and the third left faulty — fourteen dollars for our own error. Addages for posting notices come to eleven. And which day should the bureau stamp this, given its counter opens only once a week and won't hear of another?
Magnifico President
A weekly counter suits a man who has never missed a weekly counter. The seven pennies go on a fellow with an inked thumb and a folding stool, so the memory of the day gets marked properly. Two maps come out true and the third stays gloriously wrong, which is to say interesting.
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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.