“Once you were in the hands of a Grand Vizier, you were dead. Grand Viziers were always scheming megalomaniacs. It was probably in the job description: "Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted minister.” GovernmentPoliticsLeadershipHistoryTrustSatireDeviousMinisterMadmanGrand Vizier Book:Interesting Times Source: Interesting Times
“And sadly, fairytale kingdoms work poorly. It’s not just that they’re fairytales and thus not terribly real; we’ve seen stranger and more mythical attempts at leadership in our time. The problem is that Fairytales attract Good Faeries, and thus Bad Faeries; Evil Queens; Huntsmen, and, of course, The Grand Vizier. And all of those tend to lead to ruination.” FairytalesRulershipGrand Vizier Book:There and Never, Ever Back Again: Diary of a Dark Lord Source: There and Never, Ever Back Again: Diary of a Dark Lord