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It is true justice must be based on truth and reason. Justice meted out according to the whims and foolishness of influential men and women, or people in power is not justice; rather it is the mockery of justice.

In the story ‘The Kingdom of Fools’ we see the foolish king and his minister making mockery of justice. They make life of all the people in their kingdom hell and chaotic. Everyone is forced to follow their illogical and unreasonable rules.

They fail to provide justice to the rich merchant; they rather hold him responsible for the crime of making a weak wall that killed the thief. All the trials to find out the actual guilty person was a travesty of justice.

However, God, whose justice is always just punished the foolish king and his minster rightly at the end.