Oath of office

[The Timeless Shadow]

I, The Timeless Shadow, Queen of Leng, having been appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Natopian Nation by His Most Bovic Majesty the Emperor, and confirmed thereto by the Representatives of the Natopian Nation in Frenzy assembled, do swear, by Nathan the Once-Living-God, and by the Saints Elijah the Blessed and Sisera the Adjuvant, gods of the Lawful, that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Natopian Nation under the Caprine Code and the laws of the Bovic Empire of the Natopian Nation, and that I will support the Caprine Code against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, and to the Bovic Empire of the Natopian Nation, and that I will take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, on the pains of perjury, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office of which I am about to enter. So help me Bous.

[Ivo Angus]

*nods in acceptance*

[Naian the Evergreen]

Let Natopia be a model to all countries, on and off Micras, for filling judicial vacancies quickly.