No.

You going to put more villages next to them, should they not leave stuff out?

If they'd rather I put them farther away to start and warned them when I was running out of room to do that I can do that.

It's not that hard to not leave stuff out, they just wanted to know.

Okay. It depends on what the next batch wants, I suppose, I hadn't decided. If they leave stuff out I can not put people down there but it would probably be most convenient not to.

They wanna know if you're going to want them to do anything.

...I should probably figure out how to allocate kids, what with them no longer being connected to Orvara's credits system and me not having figured out space travel yet.

Yep. You have a while before they're reseasoned though.

Yeah. Uh, thoughts? Yours or theirs?

How're you going to enforce whatever system you pick?

Good question.

Anyone who has an unauthorized kid gets sterilized, to be reversed not before I fix the planets thing. I'm pretty sure I can fix the planets thing soon enough I don't need to rip babies from their parents' arms, like, I understand why it's necessary but that doesn't mean I have the stomach for it.

You probably wanna allow some leeway in how many credits you give out then. Most places take the baby so nobody's tempted to have one extra.

That makes sense.

I think there's also like international treaties on population control you should be careful of.

Okay. Well.

She will read up on international population control treaties while doing food.

All polities in the world are required to absolutely guarantee that they will stay under a certain population growth rate by any means necessary, allow no more new citizens than they have space for as defined thus, and regularly allow external census-taking to ensure that they are in compliance. They are to cooperate with other countries' efforts to expel and repatriate illegal immigrants and if found aiding or abetting anyone's attempt to leave their country and populate elsewhere will be found in violation and sanctioned or attacked. There is an international body of population control which is empowered to do various things and grant limited exceptions in extreme circumstances.

Is anyone even going to want to do external census-taking on reds?

Dunno. We do count as population though.

I can imagine, yeah.

Do we count as a polity?

I dunno but you should find out before they go polar spring.

She makes a face. Peka cannot see it, but it still happens. Yeah.

Illia makes discreet inquiries re:experimental reds and the definition of polity.

If she's keeping experimental subjects in a polar land she will for population control purposes constitute a polity even if they don't behave like one in other respects.

Okay then.

So apparently we count as a polity at least for population control purposes; I feel like this should have implications for non-population-control purposes.

Like what?