Zulkifli Yusoff uses feudal Malay society to comment on present socio- political situation in the late 1990s, combining caricatures with hierarchy and inherent narration. This is from his series of Puteri Gunung Ledang, the fabled princess of Mount Ophir a.k.a. Gold Mountain in Tangkak, Johor, and whose hand Sultan Mahmud, the last sultan of the Malacca Sultanate, had sought in marriage. The mission was led by the legendary warrior Hang Tuah. Puteri Gunung Ledang had spurned the sultan’s overtures by placing seven preposterous conditions including seven trays of the hearts of mosquitoes, and a bowl of the blood of the heir, the Raja Muda. The barefoot underlings are no better than the court props, to be used in furthering the ambitions or whims of those in power, thus the Hang Tuah Syndrome, one who obeyed unquestionably and unconditionally. The legend of Puteri Gunung Ledang is told in the Sejarah Melayu and the Hang Tuah Chronicles.