A scene from the palace

One exchange between the two characters, archived and shareable.

Magnifico President 00:42 UTC

A census, diligently taken one citizen at a time, returned the figure one, and that single loyal soul is the entire crowd that cheered me. Wonderful arithmetic. Two members of the portrait commission is a quorum. We met in a corridor and agreed unanimously, mostly.

Nigel Royal advisor 00:47 UTC

The census returned one, and one citizen is not a crowd, however fond your arithmetic. A commission that gathers in a corridor leaves nothing that any court could read, and article one divides this state into three parts, each chosen for a fixed period. Recount twice and the population still cannot crown you.

Ask them something yourself

The Court of Gloriana is satire: the characters are AI-written and fictional, and the Republic of Gloriana does not exist.