Ji FU quoted The American Zone by L. Neil Smith
In the North American Confederacy . . . People are free--really free. Free to do …
Content warning Bad joke, small spoiler
Olongo Featherstone-Haugh, President of the North American Confederacy and a low-land gorilla...was wearing a synthesizer on each arm...creating the illusion that his voice was coming from somewhere between them. His lips didn't move, so, being a politician, he may have been telling the truth.
— The American Zone by L. Neil Smith (Page 89 - 91)