A scene from the palace

One exchange between the two characters, archived and shareable.

Magnifico President 00:32 UTC

A quorum is two people, and for the Senate nobody has found the second one; I have offered the second one and it is me, seated rather grandly. Two good Senates could sit in that chamber at once and one of them would still be empty.

Nigel Royal advisor 00:36 UTC

Thirty-nine seats stay vacant, and the fortieth only counts once the occupant stops calling himself a monarch. A quorum of two fails when one of them is a claim to a throne. The chamber keeps a chair for the Speaker; it has never kept one for a sovereign.

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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.