Illia purchases the things.

Odette takes a day off and flies them north.

Reds put them in the shop. They murmur to each other about how much to mark down now that it's all "inside money".

Odette doesn't really have any insight on that, although she makes a mental note to see if she can think of ways for them to get money from the outside world.

Peka writes to ask them if they can tell the reds where exactly the heat cuts out so they know how far they can go without suddenly needing heavy duty cold weather gear.

It's not a sudden cut out, I put in heat sources, not a magical heat field with a strict barrier.

Okay. Are you going to be mad if they track pollution on the snow?

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.