"Then at least in credit countries where we can bankroll the initial investment, if this applies to us, we should probably have a process to give people about a thousand gold in ni and make it really easy or tax incentivized or something to sink it back into the same fund," Hala concludes. "Maybe with re-distributions every few years or after qualifying events, possibly only if they've been donating it back. We can have the kind of paperwork Mom hates gating extraction into a normal bank account without making their possession of the money an outright fiction."

"I like it."

"We'd have to check, but it might work." He looks very proud of her. "Of course, lots of them would end up in Heaven, but that's a much less bad failure mode."

"What's wrong with Heaven?"

"It's much narrower than Axis, you can't really live a life there, just train as a warrior for the fight against evil or reflect full-time on the nature of goodness or whatever. Some of the realms of obscure lawful good deities might be better. ...I guess if you could get everyone to good you could aim for Nirvana."

"What's your information source on this sort of thing?"

"Scrying, resurrections, the teachings of gods to their followers. I'm sure some nuance gets lost but Heaven explicitly doesn't advertise itself as a nicer place to live than Axis, just as, you know, a place that fights evil, which needs doing."

"It does sound that way."

"I think it's an admirable thing for people to set themselves to but lots of people just want eternal post-scarcity where they can do neat stuff under a well-run government and it'd be a shame if they all had to be drafted to fight evil."

"What's Nirvana like?"

"More varied than Heaven, and more suitable for people who are maybe Good only as a technicality. - Nirvana petitions for every soul. Has a rehabilitation system for them, when they manage to get one who'd usually be counted as evil."

"What do they do to rehab people?"

"I don't actually know much about it. I'd ask a cleric of one of the neutral good gods, probably, if it's relevant."

"I was mostly just curious. What exactly makes people count as lawful? It sounds like there are fast hacky ways to suddenly rack up a lot of any of the other three directions... I'm not coming up with one for law."

"The monasteries have lots of rules about mundane aspects of daily life - you learn forty blessings and say them for different specific situations, including when eating different types of food, you put on your right shoe before your left shoe but lace the left one before the right one, you open your window six inches and then reflect on whether you want to open it more before opening it another six inches. It's not as fast as 'donate a ton of money' or 'betray your country' or 'murder some innocents' but it consistently works."

"Wouldn't it be easy to forget to say one of your forty blessings?"

"They do things collectively enough there's someone about to remind you, and I think it becomes habit once you train it. And forgetting probably counts very slightly against you but not much, if you're trying and took on the more onerous rules in the first place."

"What's the fastest way to check if a kind of person interacts with this system?"

"Scrying for a dead one."

"There's Kefin et al's grandmother."

"Oh, is that a constant?"

"Died when our father was very young."

"She refused resurrection."

"My grandmother was the only person to die and stay dead in Valinor for several thousand years."

"We can look for them. - probably yours is just a ghost like you?"