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Wizard Bamzooki's Mismanagement
Wizard Bamzooki is having trouble dealing with the constant infighting within his government. Everyone is struggling to deal with the temperamental wizard or gain influence over him, as Bamzooki uses Enchant to post inflammatory messages and fire and hire people, resulting in a revolving door of officials. He's also very annoyed that this chaos is being reported in the press, and that they're all busy speculating over "who will leave next" rather than focusing on what his government has achieved (his belated press secretary Thomas Twelvetrees is having a particularly tough time trying to explain Bamzooki's ideas to the press or why people have quit, and he's now thinking of quitting himself). And on top of all this, there's the Mongol Collusion Investigation...
66 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 23, 2025
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November 11, 2025
As before, readers familiar with the politics of a certain country can pick up any volume and immediately find their way.
Bamzooki, being Bamzooki, turned the first months of his reign into chaos. Some might call it poor statesmanship; others, a calculated “supervised chaos” that allowed him to tighten his grip. A third view would cast him as the hapless victim of political intrigue. Most likely, all three are true.
Each novel in the series turns the reader into a sort of political Sherlock Holmes, decoding metaphors and reading the tea leaves to match the author’s characters with their real-world counterparts, through the shimmering distortion of a magician’s mirror.
Was Luffenham guilty or not?
Was the Mongol collusion real, or a clever illusion? Perhaps Cynthia and Moffit know the truth.
Is Poppendorf a hero or a snake?
Is Grantham duplicitous?
How are things between Bamzooki and Borjigin?
Are Scathefire’s ten days in office a world record?
And is Cynthia Pluckrose any better?
Like Schrödinger’s cat, Bamzooki’s “enchant messages” exist in only two states: My achievements are fantastic or Anything that contradicts this is ridiculous and pathetic nonsense.
The troublesome media, of course, is always to blame for failing to praise him loudly enough. Its proper role, in Bamzooki’s view, is to trumpet his triumphs to the world and, above all, to his voters. Yet his opponents are no less guilty of opportunism; they are simply less theatrical about it.
The Bamzooki series captures, with biting humor and uncanny precision, the disorder, cynicism, and self-serving delusion that define not only one nation’s politics but the world’s current affairs. And the “enchant messages” perfectly mirror the behavior of the greatest Wizard President ever.
Bamzooki, being Bamzooki, turned the first months of his reign into chaos. Some might call it poor statesmanship; others, a calculated “supervised chaos” that allowed him to tighten his grip. A third view would cast him as the hapless victim of political intrigue. Most likely, all three are true.
Each novel in the series turns the reader into a sort of political Sherlock Holmes, decoding metaphors and reading the tea leaves to match the author’s characters with their real-world counterparts, through the shimmering distortion of a magician’s mirror.
Was Luffenham guilty or not?
Was the Mongol collusion real, or a clever illusion? Perhaps Cynthia and Moffit know the truth.
Is Poppendorf a hero or a snake?
Is Grantham duplicitous?
How are things between Bamzooki and Borjigin?
Are Scathefire’s ten days in office a world record?
And is Cynthia Pluckrose any better?
Like Schrödinger’s cat, Bamzooki’s “enchant messages” exist in only two states: My achievements are fantastic or Anything that contradicts this is ridiculous and pathetic nonsense.
The troublesome media, of course, is always to blame for failing to praise him loudly enough. Its proper role, in Bamzooki’s view, is to trumpet his triumphs to the world and, above all, to his voters. Yet his opponents are no less guilty of opportunism; they are simply less theatrical about it.
The Bamzooki series captures, with biting humor and uncanny precision, the disorder, cynicism, and self-serving delusion that define not only one nation’s politics but the world’s current affairs. And the “enchant messages” perfectly mirror the behavior of the greatest Wizard President ever.
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