Speculation runs rampant about the origins of the All-Seeing Eye of Not So Important Things, as the Haute-Librarians fondly or condescendingly nickname it. Whether it began as a drunken dare, insecurity at new parliamentary policies, a thumbing of the nose at pedestrian museums, or simply the belief that no information is useless, even if false—the author of this article believes that a combination of the three seems most likely.

The palantir-crystal structure, encasing an opaque vaguely color-changing center depending on the current lighting conditions, was the most efficient information-management system at the time of the generation of the seed crystal in 2500. Funding for the maintenance and additional resources is carried out by the Friends of the Uncyclopedia Panoptica organization, which currently consists of 3.8 billion casual donors.

—Maie-Knoumane