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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
"I mean in comparison to impoverished purples or whatever, and there aren't sixty five million in Rivik in particular."
"We've committed dramatically more resources to purple healthcare and education, for whatever that's worth. For better or for worse it makes fewer headlines. I think it's really good that you're taking refugees in," he adds to Soyok, "and if you need any support with that of course it's yours."
"Most of them aren't making it," Soyok says. "The ones that do, soon I'll have a planet to put them on and the food aid from when you first showed up means there aren't any short term problems."
Nod. "We've been discouraging people from announcing their intent to resurrect people executed unjustly, lest that prompt lots of people into unwise risks, but if you recommend otherwise..."
"16.8 million ver everywhere that allows unrestricted purchases, varies widely in places that restrict to citizens, but they're never cheap. Injustices get a lot of attention, people crowdfund. We're working on expanding capacity, of course, one force keeping prices down is that people expect in ten years they'll be downright affordable. - people who are born on your colony planet will be in range of an afterlife, they won't need one, that should help Amenta out a lot."
"We can move it if there are objections but it's broadly considered a plus. Anyone who dies finds themselves there, sterile but in otherwise good health. There are people trying to do things about the infertility and there are robust surrogacy arrangements, subsidized, but I know it's far from ideal."
"I know. I think it's a good deal, I favored this location for that reason. - suicidal people are typically one of the groups vocal about their disappointment with the afterlife setup - we keep them in a coma -"
"Because they complain?" asks granddaughter-in-law.
"No, because they don't want to be alive," says her husband.
"If they don't want to be alive with everything medicine and magic can throw at the problem there's a place wished up in Mîr for it. Sometimes people list a series of frankly unreasonable conditions under which they'd agree to be alive and sometimes they can't think of anything. Their choice."
"I haven't been, my species works differently. The afterlife arrangement is all right as described?"
"Yeah, inconveniently it works off the dimension in which you are conceived and pass some early-pregnancy milestones."
"We don't have that sort of thing in the advertising because it's not testable for a long time and it's not good for trust, making promises that sound unbelievable and aren't verifiable."