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Nod. "Maybe I'll look it up later. Anyway, I was thinking more of just having smaller armies. If the maximum percent of grays were smaller," she shrugs. "Anyway, it's not that big a deal. Maybe something I import will provide more meaningful grey jobs, like if people decide to take up alien sports or something." 

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"The greys won't be in favor of shrinking, since, you know, babies."

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"Naturally. But if everyone's growing..."

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"They'll still get mad if everyone's growing more, if it's really conspicuous."

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"Fair. Let's see how we do on alien sports, I guess." 

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"I dunno how much that'll help unless people who don't watch sports now are into it... I mean lastingly, if there's a fad for a year just because it's alien that won't drive a permission uptick."

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"Enh, I'm probably not going to hit on a good solution in my first five minutes of trying," she agrees. 

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"Ereith tried something but it was just war crimes in a hat."

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"They have some complicated excuse for everyone in their country being 'grey and also something else'," says Kamuor, "except reds I think, which is fine as long as they're not having a war, but when they did practically everyone in the country showed up to it with weapons in hand! They still haven't fixed it but they know the international community'll execute their king again if they actually get into any more fights with their setup. Sometimes someone offers them protectorate status and they won't hear of it."

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"Huh. I see. I'll add that to my look-up list too." 

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"We've got a normal number and kind of greys here, it shouldn't come up."

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"Fair enough!"

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"So is Mental Health Nuisance more an orange or grey thing?" 

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"Orange! They know how to defend themselves, of course, but they don't go around carrying lethal weapons."

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"Do security guards?" 

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"Depends what they're guarding."

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"Fair. Security guards where I'm from usually don't have anything more lethal than a big heavy flashlight but the people who guard politicians have guns..." 

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Kamuor nods. "I don't know what somebody'd be guarding that would only want a flashlight but there's probably something."

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"They're big and heavy enough to double as clubs," she clarifies. 

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"If you're trying to have a club why not just have a club?"

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"Because if it's plausibly deniable then you don't have to justify arming your employees." 

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"Oh. Well, no wonder it's different here, you're allowed to have armed security guards..."

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"Well, that's my guess, anyway. Another possibility is that it's to prevent escalation..." 

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