<p>Glad to have you on board, your majesty. I have at various times been a Pasha, a Wazir, several Lords, the Emperor of Japan and even a deity or two.</p>
<p>Ladies and Gentlemen, the stakes have gone from improbable to ridiculous to ludicrous to unimaginable. I think the next claim will have to involve someplace either fictional or extraterrestrial.</p>