Today, in the Kingdom of Livia, King Livia of Livia issued orders that his Royal Monster was to compel any prisoners to gather pinecones in order to feed his sticks. Why, or indeed how, the sticks were to eat pinecones is as yet undetermined. Collection of pinecones only ceased when the prisoner (who still claims not to be a number, but a free person) pointed out that if the King of Livia wanted five pinecones, and they had gathered thirty, then the job was officially over. After some argument the point was conceded by the monster.