"This is... exciting, I'm going to go with exciting."

Giggle. 

When they get to the IT people the internet red asks them for a rundown, asks them a lot of questions, looks at diagrams, draws stuff on their whiteboard, explains web protocols on Amenta.

Once they have all this information they'd like him to take a look at their internet and see what commentary he has on it. 

"Sure, do you have anywhere in particular I should start - should I get a translation spell, will that let me type -"

They have a prototype Tapap-Villarosan translation spell; it will let him type but it's still probably pretty buggy so they'd extra appreciate if he'd tell them when something's weird so they can check if it's a cultural thing or if the spell is wonky.

"Sure thing, it'll be sort of like working on a translation project back home." He gets online. Searches "Amenta".

He gets one hit, that turns out to be in a document outlining the red immigration project in a dusty government database. 

"Not public yet?" he wonders, backtracking and searching for maps of the known world.

"No, not yet."

Some of the hits are star charts of inhabited space with varying levels of political detail. Some of the hits are supposed to be maps of the universe, or at least as many galaxies as anyone's managed to identify yet. A very few are maps of just Villarosa.

He wanted the first thing; how many non-Villarosa places are there that humans have colonized?

Lots and lots and lots. Villarosa at twelve systems isn't even a remarkably big polity. There are over a hundred thousand systems known to currently support human life, and the map has a footnote that the cartographer can't promise that nobody has colonized a new star system that they haven't heard about. 

"Hey, uh, is it likely that any of these other guys will find Amenta?"

"No. If it were likely for anyone to find Amenta it would have happened before now. Humanity's been in space for a long time." 

She points at a little corner of the map, just a little one-system polity. 

"That's the Sol system, and their third planet is Earth, and that's where humans evolved. But Earth hasn't had more than the itsy-bitsiest fraction of the human population for thousands of years. Uh, thousands of our years. More than one thousand and less than two thousand of yours."

"Uh-huh. Uh, but Amenta'll invent spaceships sooner or later, and meet whoever's around."

"A hundred thousand stars is still only about a millionth of the stars in the galaxy. And since you guys don't seem to have magic at all, even if you invent some kind of magic-free FTL--which is possible, nobody else has but nobody else has had reason to on account of magic FTL existing--it'll still probably take you a very long time to meet anyone else. Unless there are more than just humans and Amentans out there."

"Okay.

That's probably enough time for us to run around touching everything."

"Probably so!" 

He wants to know about immigration law, and law in general.

Villarosa's immigration law is slightly complicated but basically as long as you aren't an agent of a foreign power you can immigrate if you want, it's just a question of how much bureaucracy you have to wade through to do it. There are space stations where people who are in the process of immigrating to Villarosa can stay so that you don't have to stay in your country of origin while you wade through the bureaucracy if that's bad for you. Government inspectors tour the facilities at irregular intervals to make sure they continue to be humane environments. 

Red Amentans most likely fall into a category called "clear and present need" where immigration is expedited on account of actively hostile conditions in country of origin. Examples given for this category include dreadful economies with no guaranteed basic income, and situations of ethnic tensions that have not yet escalated to the point of actively producing refugees.

There are also clauses for the nobility to expedite immigration into their own areas of geographic responsibility, including the entire kingdom in the case of the royal family. 

The distinction between the nobility and commoners, and between the upper and lower nobility (the "Alta" and "Basso") are enshrined in law, but a lot less restrictive in a lot of ways than Amentan castes. For one thing, there aren't any distinctions between any castes other than blue and not-blue and gradations of blue; for another, non-nobles aren't forbidden from owning real estate. There isn't actually anything one is forbidden from doing on account of being non-noble; there are places of noble privilege where the nobility have first dibs on things like political positions, but if none of them want it then they become open to commoners; there aren't any cases of rural towns just not having a mayor because no blues lived there.

There's a distinction between law at the kingdom level, law at the system level, law at the planetary level and law at the sub-planetary level. Laws that apply across the kingdom mostly fall into the "don't kill, don't steal, don't vandalize" common-sense level; specific regulations are usually at lower levels than that. 

What about Grande Rosa, that being the one he remembers hearing they might mostly go to?

Grande Rosa is the primary system of the Kingdom of Villarosa! The capital planet, Rosamund, is the fourth planet in the Grande Rosa system. The Grand Dukes of Grande Rosa are widely held to be second in power only to the royal family itself. 

Grande Rosa has a lot of laws about preservation of historical buildings, under what circumstances a building can be declared "historical" and what happens to it afterwards. Grande Rosa has stricter than average laws about what kinds of buildings can be built where. It also has "public beautifaction" laws, which are somewhat controversial. Grande Rosa has the strictest eugenic laws of any of the twelve Grand Duchies. 

Every single planet in the Grande Rosa system has been terraformed, and every moon and microplanet that can be terraformed using existing magical technology.

What are the eugenics laws?

Every resident of the system (resident being defined as a person who has lived there for a local year) has to have their genetics on file. If an automated scan of someone's gene file turns up any genetic defects, the matter is brought to the attention of a human geneticist to confirm the computer's assessment. Anyone with a government-registered genetic defect is required to use a government-approved fertility clinic with gene-cleaning capabilities in order to conceive; they aren't sterilized, but natural conception carries heavy fines. These fines are waived if the penalized can testify under truth spell that they were never informed of the registered defect. Anyone who is informed that they possess a registered defect is permitted to appeal the ruling up to three times in order to have the case examined by a different human geneticist, in case the first geneticist was wrong or lying. 

That's the only mandatory eugenic program for commoners, but there are also complicated legal codes concerning reproduction by the nobility, who are much more heavily engineered. 

There are also various programs to encourage people to take advantage of free genetic modification to their children. Those do exist in other Grand Duchies, though, albeit less numerously. They don't have a very high level of uptake as it is; most people (most commoners, that is) produce children the old-fashioned way. 

Huh. Why don't most commoners do it?