"I wish them luck. If everybody else is kinked funny I bet it turns my world into an economic powerhouse no matter what controls they put on it, at least whenever we get linked up, what's the waiting list on that like?"

"That depends on a lot of things. Population, general stability, and useful local resources chief among them. How does your unusual standard relationship dynamics make you an economic powerhouse, exactly?"

"Supply of masochists? I dunno, maybe you've got plenty, but it's much more often a sub thing than a dom thing, so if you don't have any subs..."

"If minting pain ever does become a thing, they'll probably tune pain down really hard and people stop minting emotion much, if a supply of masochists becomes problematic. And the connected worlds are a big, big market. What's your planet's population? Any active wars? Frequency of natural disasters?"

"Six billion about, perpetual conflict in the Middle East and other local clashes but nothing major globally, they usually don't go all the way through the alphabet naming a year's hurricanes?"

"Solidly above average population for a single planet. It is just one planet, right? What sounds like good stability outside of a few pockets, a ready market for weather control, intriguing but not immediately blatantly exploitable local magic. I think you'd get placed... Priority three, maybe priority two. Which would be maybe ten to twenty years and two to five, respectively."

"Yeah, just one planet so far. People've been to the moon though."

"Your tech sounds fairly advanced compared to the universe at large if virtualization is a thing. Tech exchange between connected worlds seems to move a little slowly. Importing tech and teachers is expensive. So being well-established with it on your own and having a strong economy to buy imports will help."

"There was a huge push to develop virtualization once we noticed it was possible for a psion to handle one or a small group in a similar way manually - as long as the psion doesn't need to sleep, which is doable, and can do shared dreams and some other moderately invasive stuff. Because almost nobody wanted to starve in the wilderness for two years but having a supply of magic people is really important - mostly psions, because if we run out of trained psions we won't be able to lock down new or criminal eclipsed. So now the population of magic people is booming and it's really exciting."

"Should I arrange for someone to discover your world in few years, connect you to MTU-and-related-companies' sphere of influence?"

"Any secret catches?"

"Not from me. MTU can lean exploitative on worlds that are easy to exploit, but yours has psions and mages. There are other companies that will probably follow suit after MTU starts integrating, and I don't know as much about them, but it seems to work out well almost all of the time. MTU doesn't stage coups on local governments, there is a multiversal code of human rights, and so on."

"What's the multiversal code of human rights?"

"That sounds... like it was developed in many stages."

"Somewhat, yes. Humans aren't the only sentient species, and it's really hard to get so many disparate societies, different psychologies, to agree on something like this. There's a bit of a ruckus to reform it once in a while."

"Well, wait, why wouldn't you just separate the declaration of human rights from the declaration of other rights then?"

"Because then everyone starts yelling about anthrocentrism and speciesism."

"Then why isn't it a declaration of personal rights?"

"Um. Oops. I called it a set of human rights again, how anthrocentric of me. No, it's meant to apply to all persons, and gets a bit overloaded with how many different kinds of people there are out there."

"Gotcha."

"So, arrange for MTU to find your world, or not? I've offered it to everyone I've met here so far but only one person actually took me up on it."

"I mean, are there reasons not to? What exactly makes a world exploitable, are we talking natural resources and primitive natives or, you know, highly magically potentiated twelve-year-olds who sometimes kill their entire families and everybody would believe it if it looked like they'd gotten killed in the process too but instead they were kidnapped?"

"Mostly primitive natives. Some natural resources. Unstable magical twelve-year-olds are likely just as hazardous to us as to you. It'd be tricky and expensive and risky and illegal, so nobody would put their career on the line organizing such a scheme."

"Okay. Any other pitfalls? I don't object to making this decision on behalf of my world or anything but I want all the information."