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The Royal Commission for the Secure Reposition of the Collated Material Produce of the Intellectual, Fictitious and Personal Poetic and Prose-Oriented Labours and Associated Artefacts and Ephemera of the Centralian Body Politic and of the Greater Realms Collected Thereby, more commonly known as simply the Royal Library, is the national library of Centralia. Unlike a typical national library, the Centralian Royal Library functions as a public library with materials in active circulation to patrons, because Imicow, the head librarian, insisted that citizens have the right to make use of the library's materials.

Background

The Library was created--yes, created, not founded--by PrincessMeredith to catalogue and preserve all the information, art, and literature produced in Centralia. Whenever any creative work is produced within Centralia, a copy is instantly added to the library's collection. Don't worry, though: While the Library does contain all the embarrassing Inuyasha fanfic you wrote when you were 13, it also has a sense of responsibility, and will do its best to maintain your dignity.

While the Library is a sentient living entity, it cannot communicate directly with humans or other creatures. Instead, the RoyalLibrarian acts as an emissary between the Library itself and those who visit. Despite being a magical construct who is essentially an avatar of the Library, the Librarian is an autonomous individual with a will of their own, and on occasions the Library and the Librarian have been known to disagree.

The Library occupies a strange place in Centralian law. It is essentially a sovereign entity: within Library grounds, the Royal Librarian is the highest authority, outranking even PrincessAlice (much to the latter's dismay).

Miscellaneous

• Despite being a living building with intricately detailed architecture, the Library does have what seems to be a normal, unremarkable parking lot. Vehicles illegally parked in the disabled parking spaces have a tendency to spontaneously vanish. They have often been found several blocks away, parked legally, with the keys locked inside but otherwise untouched.

• The Librarian maintains a strict no-weapons policy for the Library and its grounds. Police officers, including ConstablePayne, have asked for an exception to this rule, but the Librarian continually refuses. Magical girls, however, are allowed to carry whatever weapons they want.

• Turning out the lights in the basement to play laser tag among the stacks is discouraged, though the Librarian is willing to look the other way "as long as you keep the noise level down."

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