"That sounds terrible. Some people thought that we should just give somebody permission to conquer Calado but I am pretty sure they won't do that."

"I don't want to die! It's not that bad!"

" - uh, what?"

"I don't want space greys rolling in here shooting people."

"- well of course not."

"Good."

"Should everyone just - ignore you all, though?"

"Well, no, it's fine if you come to play volleyball."

"I mean, people should not try to help with the thing where your government is full of maniacs and is imprisoning you all."

"I don't know what you'd do about it."

Shrug.

"But it's nice that you come here and let us meet aliens sometimes. Offline I mean."

"Figured it might help if people knew us. And it is a nice beach."

"We've got great beach weather here. If we lived in a country with credits I don't know if I would've had another kid or my beachfront house."

"I guess it's nice that you can have both."

"Credit countries involve so many tradeoffs like that. People knock our system but it just means I had to stand out at work, not that I have to cut back on nice things to help get grandkids."

"I think most places are doing as many kids as people want, now, or at least really cheap credits."

"Well, now everything's all weird, sure."

"I can see how permissions would be nicer before."

"I got three."

"Congratulations! We had three too."

"Good for you! I thought aliens didn't like kids."

" - oh. Aliens do like kids."

"I guess you can't believe everything you read."

"Three's enough for most people and we don't need seasons and had another habitable planet right there so we never needed population controls, maybe people thought that meant not liking kids."