This is a D&D.Sci scenario: a puzzle where players are given a dataset to analyze and an objective to pursue using information from that dataset.

You steel your nerves as the Mad Tyrant[1] peers at you from his throne. In theory, you have nothing to worry about: since the Ninety Degree Revolution last year, His Malevolence[2] has had his power sharply curtailed, and his bizarre and capricious behavior has shifted from homicidally vicious to merely annoying. So while everyone agrees he's still getting the hang of this whole “Constitutional Despotism”[3] thing, and while he did drag you before him in irons when he heard a Data Scientist was traveling through his territory, you’re still reasonably confident you’ll be leaving with all your limbs attached (probably even to the same parts of your torso).

Your voice wavering only slightly, you politely inquire as to why you were summoned.

He tells [...]

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