Note: "PlutRes" is a shorthand for "Plutorliament Resolution." The United Nations of Sol Plutorliament is a body of legislators representing the plutocracy. The seats are auctioned and sold, with the purchase price going directly into budgetary coffers. If you, fair reader, make a median sort of 21st-century income, you could earn enough money to buy a seat on the Plutorliament in about as many lifetimes as it took your ancestors to make it from the trees to the seat you're currently in.
MURTAUGH: *shouting* Ennesby!
ENNESBY: On it already, Captain. Short version, this is a deal we can't refuse.
MURTAUGH: The long version?
ENNESBY: PlutRes 329.6, subchapter f, section 3 is forty-two-hundred words of fine-tuned legalese.
MURTAUGH: Medium-sized, then.
ENNESBY: At their sole discretion, U.N.S. authorities like General Bala-Amin may assign cultural attachés to embassies. Rejection of the attaché results in revocation of the Writ of Diplomatic Immunity.
MURTAUGH: So if I send Lieutenant Sorlie packing, General Bala-Amin walks out of here with at least four members of my crew in her custody.
ENNESBY: Correct.
MURTAUGH: Tempting...
MURTAUGH: Sergeant Schlock, escort Lieutenant Sorlie to Guest Berth One.
MURTAUGH: Welcome aboard, Lieutenant. Grab your go-bag and follow the Sergeant, if you'd please.
SORLIE: It's just me. I haven't packed for a drop in years.
BALA-AMIN: What the Lieutenant means to say is "As an officer, I delegate those details to others."
BALA-AMIN: Your bag, Lieutenant.
SORLIE: I've never delegated anything up to a General before.
BALA-AMIN: You're young. Give it time.