Dramatis Personae

• Pamphilius, the King’s Private Secretary

• Sempronius, the King’s Private Secretary

• Bill Boanerges, President of the Board of Trade

• King Magnus

• Alice, the Princess Royal

• Joe Proteus, the Prime Minister

• Nicobar, the Foreign Secretary

• Crassus, the Colonial Secretary

• Pliny, the Chancellor of the Exchequer

• Balbus, the Home Secretary

• Amanda Postlethwaite, the Postmistress General

• Lysistrata, the Powermistress General

• Orinthia, the King’s mistress

• Queen Jemima

• Vanhattan, the American ambassador