And presumably embassadorial things at some point?

Yep! The ambassador is less of an adorable nerd than the anthropologist but he's still entirely pleased to be here.

How difficult is it looking like it's going to be to get an embassy?

Probably not too hard? Scale of days?

He is impressed, and says so! Jarizana thought hospitals would be harder?

Yes, definitely. Once they're recognized as representatives of a foreign country and given their stated requirements finding land for an embassy should be easy; putting up hospitals is way more complicated and likely to have politics attached.

Kilaiuossa is probably the easiest country in the world to get an embassy in right now, what with the Empress's Reforms.

He would love to hear about those!

...Okay, so there's this one cultural minority called the Bremri, and, uh, long story short there used to be a bunch of laws that persecuted them but then the then-Princess ascended to the throne and cut them out with a sword, basically, and now things are not that and policy is to err on the side of not doing anything like that to anyone else.

He commends the Empress on what sounds like a very sensible policy even when not expecting powerful aliens.

The Empress is very sensible! This is a large part of why she is Empress.

How does Kilaiuossa do succession?

When the current monarch announces the intent to retire or dies, members of the royal family who want to succeed them announce their intentions and gather supporters and make promises and the Council of Provinces elects one of them. If the monarch dies then their appointed Regent rules until the new monarch is elected. Every monarch has to have a Regent who stands in for them in the case of death or temporary incapacitation.

"Sounds like a very reasonable system."

He's glad he thinks so. How are monarchs selected in his country?

"Well, when the Noldor were first offered the chance to come to Valinor, Finwë scouted it out, decided we'd have a better life there, and persuaded our people - one by one, our numbers were much fewer back then - to go with him. So Finwë was King. Being immortal, there was no hurry to settle the succession, but Finwë's favorite son was his firstborn - my father, he invented the printing press and a lot of things after that which you don't yet have, including the means to travel between the stars -"

The ambassador has no concept of the sheer difference in technology level between "printing press" and "spaceship." He nods along.

"So Finwë named my father his heir, and my father having no particular desire for the job comforted himself that this was irrelevant, all of us being immortal, and then I grew up to like the work quite a lot and they both decided I would succeed him when he felt like retiring. The last time we spoke of it he was waiting for me to settle down and raise a family first - Elves consider that a full-time job, you wouldn't want to do it once you were King."

"Oh, I see. Being a monarch is a pretty stressful job."

"It really is."

"So your grandfather is still king?"

No because of the war he is dead and my father discovered an interest in kinging after all if it meant going to war and we haven't brought Finwë back in Milliways because he might interfere. But the emperor of the multiverse is all mine. 

"I have yet to decide how to break it to him that I'm not really planning to settle down and marry. I don't expect he'll take it badly, but he might make me wait a century to be really sure."

"How long does it take you to grow up again?"

"Twenty-five hundred of your years. I am in no particular hurry to assume the crown but by then I think I would be chafing."

"That seems reasonable."

"I think he'll see it that way!"