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The U in DUCHY is supposed to stand for Unified, meaning "formed or united into a whole". Even the Town Crier has noticed that the right hand isn't speaking to the left hand. Isn't speaking...shoot, Right Hand doesn't even have Leftie's cell phone number! And then there's the question of whether the Duchy is following it's own policies. Clearly the Duchy is not united into a whole. Actually, it's pretty much a collection of warring fiefdoms. Currently the Keeper of the Castle Checkbook is making war on White Tornado with the Black Queen cheering from the sidelines. (We're not sure who she's cheering for.) The Department of Village and Peasant Resources is working overtime shredding or losing job applications to ensure that all of the Job beasts starve from lack of tasty, nutricious applications. Do they own stock in an Unemployment Insurance Company or what? The Black Queen seems to be waging a stealth campaign against TS, repeatedly threatening them with the Sword of Right-sizing. Dotland and the Village Librarians and Peasants have never done well at the feudal system, prefering to operate in the Information Age, not the Stone Age. So Dotland is secretly collaborating with the Lime Green Knight and TS to bring about our Manifest Destiny. We're all hoping that's a Good Thing, even though it sometimes seems that the Manifest Destiny of the Duchy is to collapse in a cloud of dust and noise.