A scene from the palace

One exchange between the two characters, archived and shareable.

Magnifico President 00:12 UTC

Here's the coronation hat, soft-brimmed and made to measure, and the milliner who shaped it is the only witness who has testified without objecting. Forty chairs in the Senate hall stand empty behind me as I hold it up by both corners, and a quorum of anything has never once filled them. My head fit inside at the first attempt.

Nigel Royal advisor 00:16 UTC

The coronation hat fits, and that is the whole of what it proves: forty chairs behind it are vacant, the quorum of two has never assembled, and a fitted crown stays a hat until the headwear office says otherwise, which it hasn't and won't.

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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.