In an era when Indunas valued riches over wisdom, the ruler at the helm sought to correct the imbalance by appointing an Induna in charge of wisdom. The idea was simple: without wisdom, the kingdom would remain fixated on the belief that leadership equals wealth.
The new induna’s first task was to persuade the former ruler’s wife to vacate her kingdom-funded rental and move into one of her two dozen brazen maisonettes. She exploded. “If a mere civil servant can build 48 flats, what mathematics bars someone from the corridors of power from doing twice as much?” As a have-not who had attended a public university with open-air graduations, she reasoned that if the “proceeds of crime” rule were applied fairly, half the kingdom would be in jail.
Next came the women’s soccer imbroglio—why had three-star players been axed from a con tournament? Mr. A. Kerfuffle, responsible for fixing Mr. Car Loser, delivered a masterstroke of wisdom: “We suspected they would fail integrity tests, so we removed their names before the tests could be conducted.” His footage now plays on comedy channels, a punchline to the trio’s shattered dreams.
Then came the economist questioning the now-fashionable single-digit inflation. Mr. Wise accused the skeptical economist of being “economical with the truth,” insisting that inflation manipulation was purely an act of economic collusion.
Another crisis erupted over young entrepreneurs whose mobile booths had been demolished in the name of sanity and a summit. When the wise Induna was shown, by Sean, a heap of abandoned files labeled Agro Promises, he fainted. He revived just in time to hear that elected officials had secretly awarded themselves hefty salary increments while the kingdom transitioned from poor to poorest.
Like Counting promissory notes in a fixed kingdom is no job for the faint-hearted, no matter how wise.
