This week’s puzzle:

An unelected dictator and his cronies want to get something that doesn’t belong to them. They participate in an unfair trial, ruin relations with another country, kill a small animal, and trick an old man into falling to his death, but in the end they are stopped by the forces of order.

Last week’s puzzle:

A man who lost his last job will do anything to get it back. When his former co-workers are reluctant to have him return, he orchestrates a government-backed hostile takeover, but afterward his new allies turn around and arrest him for fraud.

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