Public policy, and Christmas Card

At the top of the Surreal Style image, What does the policy wonk want for Christmas…

A dreamlike, Dali-inspired Christmas tableau in an endless mirror-slick snow plain under a cotton-candy twilight sky. In the center, a towering Christmas tree made from spiraling, melting scrolls of “policy” paper, edges drooping like soft wax, puddling into inky candy-cane swirls at its base. The scroll-tree is decorated with shimmering wax seals, tiny sugar-glass pie charts, gavel-shaped ornaments, and glossy section-symbol baubles; long, elegant shadows stretch across the reflective snow.

From the sky, a ribbon of “red tape” unfurls and gradually transforms into sparkling red tinsel that wraps the paper tree in playful loops. To the left, a peppermint-striped gavel half-melted into the snow reflects the sky; a comically long filibuster scarf winds past it like a candy ribbon, forming infinity signs. To the right, a sleigh shaped like an upward-trending graph drifts across the air, pulled by reindeer assembled from paperclips and rubber stamps; their antlers branch into delicate policy-branch diagrams. Above, a domed gingerbread parliament building floats inside a snow globe, its frosted columns gently sagging, snowflakes inside shaped like asterisks and section symbols drifting out into the open sky. Paper airplanes folded from “memos” glide around the tree, piloted by spectacled toy elves, casting thin, elongated shadows.

Lighting is ethereal and golden-hour: soft volumetric rays, pearly glow on icing, gentle bokeh of twinkling lights. Color palette: frosty aquas, mint and ice-blue, blush pinks, candy-cane reds, warm champagne gold. Painterly textures with surreal, melting edges; hyper-detailed yet airy, whimsical, and funny.

At the bottom of the image, small cheeky caption: Less red tape, more red tinsel.

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