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There are a lot of Amentan countries. Vanda Nossëo representatives are dispatched to all of them. These Elves (two with black hair, one with silver) take a shuttle down from the lightleaper to a country called Calado, and radio ahead to request permission to land at a elegant modern spaceport.
okay by comparison Voa and Tapa look like thriving modern democracies
"They have a teleporter in the front cabin who moves them. It's a good job if you want to be able to teleport - you agree to move the shuttles and if you pass all the screening they'll agree to have you teleport-enabled."
"...well I don't think the shuttle companies would refuse to hire someone who was the wrong Amentan caste for the job, since they'll hire aliens without any caste at all. What sorts of jobs does your caste do?"
"There are security teleporter jobs - transporting prisoners to and from hearings is a teleporter job, arresting officers can teleport so they can move someone to a cell without endangering anybody - if you wanted to teleport and wanted something more like what you'd do at home." The last shuttle jumps. They're on a pretty ringed planet, next to an ocean.
And she walks them to the prison, which is right by the shuttleport for the convenience of visitors. The prison has a scanner for them to walk through that checks for dangerous magic things. Visitors wear a visitor badge.
Pregnant lady and her husband are hanging out in the main room looking at onesies on their computer. He's wearing a visitor badge.
She was part of a sect opposed to galactic membership which assassinated several politicians over it!
...yes, people in that religion do have lots of kids. It's still a fairly minority religion because the retention rate is pretty low. They'll intervene if someone has more children than they can provide for, of course.
"Oh. There aren't treaties about population size here, just about standards of living and things. If someone's population were growing so fast they were all starving and couldn't survive without ongoing external aid then there'd be an intervention for that population in particular but most places are doing just fine without rules so there's not much need to add them."