I mean, I think nowadays some people have kings and it's not terrible, but only because they made their kings not be in charge anymore because they realized that listening to kings was terrible. So now kings and queens mostly wear fancy clothes and wave at people.

Our King is in charge and it's not terrible. I think maybe the people who took all your food are unreliable about what it's like when there's kings.

SOME kings are OK SOMETIMES. I GUESS. We have a song about one. But I think people couldn't all lie about what it's like when there's kings, because now we have freedom of the press, and when we had kings we didn't, so if anybody's going to be confused I bet it's the people with kings.

How do you know that? 

I guess because I read about it.

Well Karen thinks the place I'm from is very far away and definitely a lot of things are really different here and I think you can't just make someone a king without gods anyway so we'll have to find some other way to fix it.

OK! I think teaching everybody to make clothes and be farmers again won't work, though.

Okay. I think we will ourselves need to go find a farm, though, because working makes Karen sad and also you live in this place.

You can't just go find a farm, you have to buy one.

I don't like this system at all.

Okay. How do you get money?

I guess you have to work? Kids aren't allowed to work, though.

So how do kids get money?

Kids don't have any money unless they have allowances for doing chores. Or get birthday money. Or have parents who buy them whatever they want.

Okay, how do you get allowances and what are chores.

Chores are if you do work around the house, like if you pick up your toys or sweep the floor or do dishes. Parents are allowed to give you money if you do chores. But I think if Auntie Karen doesn't have enough money for a farm then we can't get enough money for a farm from her. Because of math.

And she's the only person who is allowed to give us money if we do chores?

I think so? Because there are child labor laws.

That's horrible. All of that is horrible.

I think the child labor laws are because people used to send children to work in factories all day and they would get their fingers chopped off. But it does make things hard if you want to buy a farm.

Maybe you could make things and sell them?

That's allowed?

I dunno. If you make lemonade you can sell it. So probably you can sell other things you make, it's just that kids don't know how to make very many things.

I'm not very good at making things yet but I haven't been focusing very hard and probably if I tried I could get good at things. My parents are.

Your parents have probably had a lot more practice.

Yes, they have. It takes a lot of practice to be good at things.

Well, I think if you learned how to make a valuable thing and then sold a lot of it, then probably eventually you could buy a farm. I bet it would take a long time, though.