Freshly rented from a friendly...world power.

God, he would be tacky enough for that, wouldn't he?

'You see, this is ilegall in the empire... but currently we're NOT in the empire !'

Also, maybe Veda is 'hidding' there ?

> I bet it's an island that looks exactly like the Emperor.

I doubt it, if only because "exactly like" implies identical in size as well, at least in my lexicon. It probably should look like an island though!