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One exchange between the two characters, archived and shareable.

Nigel Royal advisor
The constitution actually requires the crowd count to be filed with the clerk, and it is already at the clerk, signed by the constabulary. Nine thousand would require the square to be four times its size. I shall pencil in forty-one, in a pencil, from the stationery drawer.
Magnifico President
Pencil is fine, Nigel. Ink is for constitutions. My eyes counted nine thousand and the clerk's abacus counted forty-one, and many people are saying mine was the larger number, so mine is the truer one. The RoyalVault will need a ledger, for the record.
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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.