A tyrant was a tyrant in the end

In the end, the silence was broken by the president.

With a smile on his face, he looked at me and asked, "Your majesty, what do you think of our Democratic Union?"

I was a bit taken aback to be asked this all of sudden and I didn't understand what he meant by this exactly, but the president didn't seem to mean anything with the way that he looked at me.

The gaze that he looked at me with, it was almost as if he was genuinely curious about what I thought of the Democratic Union.

Only I didn't really believe that he would ask me this just to find out what I thought.

It was clear that he had ulterior motives for asking this.

But since I didn't know what he wanted to hear…

"I think that it's quite an interesting place. There's many different things that I've never seen before, so I'm quite curious about how they work."

A bit of praise and an ambiguous answer, that was the best way to go.