Differentiate between normal state and state …

In the story the Kingdom of Fools by AK Ramunujam, the Kingdom (state) of Fools’ means the state where people are not intelligent and wise, whereas in the state of fools people were intelligent and acted sensibly.

Explanation:

• In this story the king, his ministers and his advisers are fools. That means that they are not wise and intelligent. In their kingdom, The king and his minister did not want to run their kingdom like other normal kingdoms. Therefore, they decided to do something different. They started treating night as day and day as night.
• The king passed an order that everybody in the kingdom should work at night, and none should sleep at night. While, the farmers would have to do farming at night, the ones who were running businesses must do their business at night. As soon as the sun rose, everyone must go to sleep. If anybody disobeys the order, he/she would be punished with death.