A caustic first-person soliloquy stages a European sovereign defending his administration of a Central African territory while revealing the violence and exploitation that sustain it. The speaker asserts benevolent aims but describes, through boastful rationalizations, coerced labor, punitive mutilations, forced quotas and famine, corrupt agents, suppressed dissent, and the use of religion and patronage to mask profit-driven abuse. The piece deploys biting irony and theatrical rant to indict imperial methods and to dramatize the moral hypocrisy of colonial rule.