Ambassador Oreck is a big Philip K Dick fan. Deckard is named after Rick Deckard, the protagonist of Dick’s sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (which later became the film Blade Runner) because he more closely resembles a sheep than a dog.

Like all the embassy staff, six-year-old Deckard has his own security card so he can stroll around the grounds without interruption. His pass is yellow. “There are different colour passes for different levels of security,” the ambassador explains. “When Deckard came he was issued with a pass that had the highest level of security access. My marine attachment commander here decided that was wrong so they have given him the lowest level of access now. It must have been something he did!”