“Naturally,” he said, pausing in front of a cluster of earth ponies with vegetable cutie marks, “when the Princess proposed constructing a new embassy right here, in Ponyville—away from all the petty infighting the nobles get to—I was ecstatic. It's ponies like you who make Equestria great, and it's ponies like you who are best suited to welcoming a new citizen to our great land.”