The Emperor's New Codes
Many years ago, there was a plump King with thick brown hair who greatly fancied new codes that he spent so much effort and money in fashioning and parading them for all to see. He cared not a bit on mending the concerns of colored laborers, consulting the women's guild, or limiting coal pollution. His ultimate desire was to constitute a legislation that could be more famous than the Code of Hammurabi or the Mosaic Law. The King's passion for laws was evident in the castle's architecture. On his first year of reign, a museum was erected in his honor. It was filled with codes. Everything inside the building was engraved with all of his edicts and commands. He had them printed on walls, sheepskins, elephant hides, mammoth's wools, and turtle shells. Another quirky thing about the King was his appetite for introducing a new code every turn of the hourglass. Citizens would hear about them from his ministers proclaiming on every street corner. Silly thing was - They wer