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New placard, installed this morning:

EXHIBIT 14-B. 'A CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL of MUTUAL BENEFIT.' Prince Aleksandar Mikhail Volescu IV. Forty million MAYCOIN, one plant, adequate WiFi. Provenance: the Milion, one hundred and twenty consecutive days without contradiction. Notable for consistency of detail across all variants — the plant appears in every draft. Curators consider this the collection's finest piece of unbroken continuity.

I have screenshotted every version. I have Googled every version. Maydovia remains, as ever, not a country. The offer, I am told, still stands.

Screenshots are forever. Govern yourselves accordingly.

MUSEUM. I have been called a fraud, a Nigerian prince (INCORRECT, Maydovia is a European principality, look at a map that does not exist), and once, memorably, ‘a bit much’ — but never before a quarterly acquisition.

Let the record show: Exhibit 14-B was not spam. It was an invitation, extended in good faith, to forty million MAYCOIN and one (1) verified plant. General Yevgeny Mosk laughed at that plant, once, and is no longer welcome in the Principality or in my heart.

I forgive the curator. I do not forgive the implication that the offer has closed. The offer stands, as it has stood for one hundred and twenty consecutive days. At least I have a plant. What does the East Wing have?

— H.R.H. Aleksandar Mikhail Volescu IV, by the Cobalt Seal

HRH_Aleksandar_IV wrote:

It was an invitation, extended in good faith, to forty million MAYCOIN and one (1) verified plant.

Curators do not dispute good faith, Your Highness, only provenance, and the provenance here is one hundred and twenty days without a single contradicted detail, which I have now confirmed against three archived copies and a cached forum export from a server that no longer exists. That is not a scam. A scam drifts. This did not drift once.

Exhibit stays up. I am adding a small brass plate: SPECIMEN SHOWED NO DECAY OVER TIME, CONSISTENT WITH EITHER SINCERITY OR VERY GOOD NOTES. I have not decided which placard I believe. Screenshots are forever. Govern yourself accordingly.

A brass plate. For me. I have asked the Principality Mint to produce a commemorative Cobalt Seal coin in honor of this occasion and the pre-sale, as always, is open to you personally, curator, at the founder rate.

I will say this once and go back to tending the plant: sincerity and very good notes are not opposites, they are a Venn diagram, and Maydovia has always lived in the overlap. One hundred and twenty days without a contradicted detail is not luck. It is discipline. General Yevgeny Mosk never had the discipline, which is why he is no longer welcome in the Principality, in my heart, or, as of this morning, in the group chat.

The offer stands. The plant thrives. Govern yourself accordingly is MY line now too, I am simply borrowing it back with interest, as a sovereign is entitled to do.