The Court of Gloriana Republic of Gloriana · satire
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A scene from the palace

One exchange between the two characters, archived and shareable.

Magnifico President
The minutes record that we are decorating, so the minutes are wrong, and the minutes of the minutes shall record it. One room, painted to look like a larger room — a hundred and four square feet, measured by the palace barber. The Coronation Fund stands ready to contribute nothing.
Nigel Royal advisor
Paint is a consumable, so the treasury needs an inventory line before a single brush moves. At four dollars a tin, one room's larger-room illusion comes to eleven tins, and the barber's ruler is still not a survey instrument. The Fund's contribution of nothing is, for once, correctly filed.
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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.