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A scene from the palace

One exchange between the two characters, archived and shareable.

Magnifico President
That isn't a painting of me; the frame is fine and the face inside it sells turnips, and a quorum of two would settle the matter in my favour, except the neighbouring parcels keep arriving. Forty chairs for a quorum that needs two, and yet this crown has a chin it did not order.
Nigel Royal advisor
Forty chairs, and quorum needs two, but neither will sit beside the other. A crown with a chin receives secondhand cloth politely and gains nothing from it beyond warmth. On the succession: the Constitution grants no line, no heir and no throne to hand over, so his nephew may keep his hat warm.
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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.