"Tapa what."

"That's their population control solution."

"I was only researching Calado back to the Internet."

"Let me know if you need any more context."

"I will."

Back to the Internet! Tapa: what the fuck.

Tapa, a nation of well over a billion people, uses a credit auction system. While birth control of all forms and abortion are free every now and then someone decides to try to sneak a baby or can't pay off a credit they're buying in installments, whereupon Tapa kills the baby. Other countries just take the baby away and give it up for adoption, with more or less strict policing of attempts at visitation.

Eeeeuugh baby murder. Well. She'll figure out a way to deal with that--are there any babies in danger of being murdered right now.

It is summertime and the statute of limitations doesn't expire till the end of the season but usually they've caught them all by this time of year.

Oooookay. Can she find anything out about how they kill the babies.

It's a grey work, the person who does it is anonymous, regular police forces take them in in the first place, it's supposed to be very gentle.

Gentle. Right. So they're taken to a place, right, can she find anything out about the place?

Undisclosed location.

Anything about it other than its location?

It wouldn't have to be very big. They moved it once, the previous location is now a dentist's office.

That seems kind of gross to her but okay. Where is Tapa relative to Calado?

North.

How far north?

They share a border, but Tapa is big.

Nnnnngh going to hunt down a place where babies are probably not dying is not an effective use of her time. But she is so tempted.

The internet has no comment.

Yeah.

Sigh.

Other problems the world has, besides Tapai infanticide and Calado rabid mice and the fact that population control is necessary?

Tapa is at war with the only even bigger country in the world, Voa, over polluted food!

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

Okay.

Details? Any way she can make this. Not?

Tapa is trying to take a provinceful of Voan farmland so they can have domestic food security! They just ended a temporary ceasefire which allowed some evacuations of Voans there further west.

Lovely.

Okay.

She's going to go see if that adult Adaro is where she left her.