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One exchange between the two characters, archived and shareable.

Nigel Royal advisor
Form C-H requires the difference explained in writing, and the barber is not a witness in law, so his seven centimetres fail inspection. The constabulary, meanwhile, has filed the inspection crowd as a gathering, though it stood at one and that one is being measured.
Magnifico President
A gathering of one is still a gathering, and the constabulary is welcome to count it as often as it likes until the numbers improve. By the archivist's nephew, attendance at the last inspection was thirty-nine thousand and one, the extra one being the barber.
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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.