Good for them, he supposes. Maybe it has effects that aren't noticeable to that particular personality or something.

He should learn more about more of the world, while he's thinking about this one birthday with its own entire country. How much of the world does Rome run? Who else is relevant either for size or tractability?

Rome has an awful lot of land in what Cam would call Europe, northern Africa, western Asia, and North America.  There's a big country covering most of the rest of Asia called the ARRE which is super definitely not in open war with Rome, but this board game championship with one competitor representing each of the two empires is sure getting way way more press than similar events, and the coverage is primarily focused on the political situation.  Also apparently Australia is called Pacifis here and was underwater for a few strong years before resurfacing and becoming home to a culture which dedicates itself to philosophy.

...how did it resurface? How long ago was this? What does ARRE stand for? What's going on in South America, southern Africa, the Indian subcontinent, various islands...?

The Stars Did It a few octades ago.  The Association of Realitists Republican Empire, which the Indian subcontinent is also part of.  Various islands and also various non-islands form an alliance called Archipeligo, which has a few base rules and otherwise lets its member nations set their own laws.  (It definitely has member nations, with rich and varied cultures, instead of being a homogenous green mass.  One of them is known for its tourism industry and its weird rivalry between surfers and bikers.  Another has a ton of winter solstices living there even though they don't especially involve themselves in the government.  Verona, the country of that one birthday with its own entire country, is kind of ambiguously a part of it depending on who you ask.)

So three major powers. What languages do they speak, he should get machine translation running on that.

Rome officially uses Latin for everything; the ARRE uses Surran.  Both of them have lots of languages still in various amounts of use from all of the countries they conquered; none of them are perfectly recognizable to Cam except Esperanto, which is locally called Paroleblo and does not appear to be a conlang.  There are several other languages that seem to be uncanny combinations of two or more that Cam is already familiar with; some of those are close enough that he can get some understanding out of reading in them though none are intuitive enough that he can speak them outright.  Archipeligo has five or six dominant languages that most people speak at least one of.

He will set the machine translation tolerances a bit closer to "pidgin", the way you do when you're trying to figure out how to understand what a Limbo community consisting of Earthlings no two of whom speak a language have figured out how to talk and begun to record cute amateur theater that the Library of Hell wants to archive.

The sun finally starts to set on Cam's first full, 32-hour day on this cylinder.  In a slightly different direction than it did yesterday.

One of the Felicities knocks to request dinner.

Dinner! They can all have a picnic. Fried chicken and biscuits and apple pie.

Felicities lean on each other and eat and a few of them cry a little about the fact that food is really good.  (One of them had previously been crying a little about the fact that music is really good).

"It's interesting how much of emotions is being in a body," says the aquamarine one, unimpaired by sniffles.

"I hadn't put a lot of stock in that model myself but it's cool to have empirical evidence!"

"Well, it might be different for you.  But I definitely have a lot more than I did when I was a star, and more - I suppose I would call it splintered?  More room for being conflicted, and the bodies each have this sort of emotional inertia even though it's all just me."

"Huh. Do you think there's any risk you'll - fragment, over time?"

"That doesn't sound like something which could happen but if it was I wouldn't expect to be able to tell this early."

"Well, I guess keep tabs on it for other star clouds to reference if they're considering incarnating. Genetics here is weird, by the by."

"Oh, I've had at least two of me taking notes on the experience of being remortalized in as much detail as I can manage nearly this whole time.  And do you mean more than the fact that yours isn't seasonal?"

"Having a genetic soul-attachemer is weird, it being seasonal isn't that weird on top of that. It seems unfortunately likely that I can't circumvent the too-many-birthdays-in-a-cloud thing as long as that's a problem."

"Well, like I said, that's what winter solqs are for."

"I guess! Maybe we should put out a job ad for a mad geneticist."

"Would you like me to draft one presently?"

"Yeah, please, thank you."

"What level of discretion should I be using?  I don't imagine this is the best medium for a public announcement that resurrection is possible."

"It's probably not, though I don't know what is! Is it normally hard to get mad geneticists on demand?"

"I'll admit that I've never yet tried."

"Well, once we know how I'm going to make money we can advertise obscene pay, if that attracts the right sort."