It's all very reminiscent of the (probably fictitious) local authority that once ruled Pi to be exactly 4; meaning that clocks would lose something like a minute every hour.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
