An innocent robotics researcher's lab has been demolished, the roboticist is dead, the lab assistants range from dead to traumatized, and a pocket everything on one of the rioters shows a recent text exchange - innocent, but anything could be code.
The greys arrest the other party to the conversation.
He gets a form thank-you note too. The other organizations are mostly local chapters of projects like "vaccinate literally everyone against the pox" and "badger governments to subsidize emergency medical golems".
They are per-city-state and are small bundles of concerned citizens who lobby for funding and creche access.
They have successfully eradicated the pox from its entire endemic region, although they plan to continue aggressively vaccinating for another several decades to make really sure. There are some governments who think that providing medical golems should be profitable in its own right and not require their help, or who are suspicious that medical golems might not just do their standard array of first aid procedures.
...Aitim will entertain himself by dabbling in local politics and trying to persuade governments otherwise.
Governments where nobody has families are very different from blue governments where everyone wants to afford children! - there's still corruption but it's scope-limited and petty.
Aitim has ever attempted to achieve political things through legitimate channels. Like meeting people and convincing them and collecting persuasive statistics about wealth and productivity and being a nuisance and making introductions and so on.
And all these tactics can make progress and he is just as skilled as ever at guessing which ones where!
Kib gets theater tickets for them. It's a political drama.
It's a comedic political drama; occasionally the protagonist spends a lot of effort on a project that has been obviated behind her back or while operating under some dire misapprehension. But she is good-hearted and persistent and eventually is elected president.
"No? Is it too unprofitable to make fun of blues even if they win in the end?"
"Oh, people make fun of blues, they just don't portray them kind-hearted and well-meaning and eventually successful."
"Hmmm. Uh, cynicism being fashionable and there being more corruption and ...even the paradigmatic good leader is less kind-hearted and more...ruthless in pursuit of the right goals."
"Huh. Is that like - part of how they teach you to be blue, or a feature of the large population..."
"I think mostly a feature of how they teach you to be blue, and there's some more of that in the population generally but I bet it's cultural rather than a species difference per se. It's the babies, you know, makes everything very zero-sum, lots of idealism is fundamentally about believing things aren't zero-sum."
"Not everything is. But the thing people want most is, and I think that affects how they think about a lot of things."
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