"Oooh. I do not think I will need to bump anyone, this is probably more important to do right than to do this week -" and to reading.

Isabella can read stuff from the neighboring world too, although not as much of it since her alts are keeping her so occupied. (And fed. Sibyl has yet to develop T'Mir's taste for Davlian priv, but that doesn't stop her from eating a bowlful.)

Very thoughtful of them, that. How is this government structured, who is in charge of it -

There is an Empress and various Continental and Regional Governors and various Stratocrats and Timocrats under her.

She will check out the Empress's personal writings.

Mostly private correspondence, some with the other governmental types, some with her childhood birdperson nurse, some with her thirty children. (They're humanoids, not human; this is not an unusual number of children for people who reproduce at all, which is not most of them.)

How'd they get interplanetary travel worked out -

Most of the available writing indicates that it was invented by a university department 220 years ago. They have colonized three planets besides their homeworld but on one of them everybody suddenly caught fire a few weeks into the project in what was Probably Birdperson Rebel Sabotage and they have not retried on that planet since.

...did Cam include a map of the star system, does that planet perchance have a moon.

Also are there birdperson rebels in fact or just as a target of blame for random problems -

That planet does perchance have actually three moons.

There are maybe birdperson rebels! They have legit grievances. Annnnnd also make a really convenient target of blame for random problems.

She looks up more about birdperson rebels. 

They are poorly organized and/or do not communicate through writing much, but much has been written about them by the aggrieved elite class.

Any of them known, like, by name, or otherwise well enough a demon can find their names -

Pseudonym, mostly, which is enough for a demon to look them up.

She's not sending Cam all her questions at once, he's busy, but she's making a list of things to send to Cam once she's done. Most recent transition of power?

Empress took over to much fanfare from her father who died under tragic circumstances (it was probably birdpeople!) and promptly had four of her siblings locked up for conspiring against her.

...she wants the names of those, too. Is the Empress, like, managerially competent, are there wars - they've got interplanetary travel, do they have, like, personal computers in most households - such as there are households -

The Empress can retain competent staffpeople - of both species, even - without trouble, and has ever read anything about economics, but she's not great or anything. Occasionally the Stratocrats are obliged to put down rebellions, some of birdpeople and some of uppity Timocrats or Regional Governors who don't want to answer to the Empress or other Stratocrats. There are computers around, in quantity even, but they are not a household staple; computer use is a profession.

She books a time with Sibyl. She sends Cam the list of people she would like names of and a rebellion a decade back she would like particular details of.

The rebellion a decade back was a Stratocrat trying to make off with his regiment and some other people and some terraforming swag to go make another try on the Everything Is On Fire Planet under his own banner. Names were thus.

Sibyl and a basket of assorted angelic candy samples are all set when the time slot rolls around. "What's the plan, lovely?"

"I have found something I want! I want this place better-governed by, like, tomorrow. It is my expectation that talking to the Empress won't go anywhere but I want to see what happens if we try it anyway - like, twice, if there is a super path-dependent way to make her not terrible I feel no particular obligation to strive for it - and then I want to talk to the birdperson rebels about how to most efficiently desegregate everything and then if they are of the opinion that some nominal continuity with the existing ruling order will help them I have a couple of siblings of the Empress who I think will be puppettable."

"Did you get the computers speaking the language for transcription or will I just have to bounce audio of the conversations?"

"All set up. They make rather silly mistakes sometimes but it was more than big enough a corpus."

"That's computer translation for you, all right, here goes -"

And she holds her computer in one hand and nibbles on her candy basket with the other and provides a transcript of the counterfactual.

The Empress is deeply nonplussed about receiving a visitor and kind of too preoccupied with that to entertain critique on her governance.