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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
"Same penalties across the board for crimes or a vote within each caste in favor of the current setup, raise the minimum age for the death penalty and for extradition of people under that age to countries that haven't raised it."
"Extradition one's a bit of a coordination problem, can't do that unilaterally - well, we could, with the defense agreement, but -"
"But it's better not to burn bridges, yeah, of course. The minimum age is five and three-quarters but six might be cleaner."
"You mature like humans and that's what the humans that still execute people settled on. You could try to argue Amentans don't mature like humans, but at a glance you do. For Elves it's a hundred eighty five, not that it's come up."
"Huh. On the criminal penalties one - see, most crime is intracaste. I can imagine purples preferring that everyone's penalties be as harsh as theirs - so the people who harmed them or other purples they know would be punished - while I can imagine most blues and greens would rather let a few purples and greys off lightly than risk suffering such penalties themselves -"
"Well, as long as it's the same for everybody it doesn't have to be put up to a vote at all, but if you think there'd be consistent differences in what people want then that's what the vote mechanism is for."
"If blues and greens will vote for crimes against blues and greens to have light penalties, and purples and greys will vote for crimes against purples and greys to have stiff penalties, and everyone will be okay with other castes doing that, that's the system working as intended from our standpoint."
"Could you have consistent penalties and a lot of weight given in sentencing to the wishes of the victim, and then castes which care to have a norm against stiff sentences for their members could directly request those when relevant?"
"- I'm not sure I've correctly communicated the - when someone's been, say, defrauded, they will probably prefer harsher penalties for the perpetrator if those are available. But if they're voting on general policy, I believe that purples and greys are likely to prefer harsher sentences for any castes they can vote on, and blues, greens, and yellows are likely to want lighter sentences for themselves even if in so voting they grant the same to other castes. I'm not sure about oranges."
"So you don't think you can come up with any proposed sentencing law that will have majority approval within every caste?"
"Right. Disparate sentencing like we have now will poll fine with the higher status castes but poorly with the lower, making everything gentler would be similar, making everything harsher would be the reverse."
"The rule for prison conditions is that they're allowed to transfer, is that going to be a concern?"
"Yes - couple places requested the swap infrastructure make it possible to separate co-conspirators and so on, we can accommodate that -"
"Does this mean we have to shut down the prisons that manage themselves by only allowing in certain applicants or is it only the other way around -?"
"So we can still have one-caste prisons just fine - yeah I think we can get that through all right."