Government Suppresses The Truth Strawhats Saved Alabasta

First on-page instance in the series of the World-Government-manufactures-the-official-record doctrine — the institutional self-image-management that recurs at far higher stakes: the Ohara “pirate raid” cover-story for the Buster Call, the faked Doflamingo abdication, the Sabaody/Kuma narrative, the Reverie suppression, and ultimately the entire Void-Century erasure. The Alabasta medal-cover is the small, legible prototype of the same machine that erased a century of history.