"Uh, the 1930s? The exact year depends on how you define some things, I think." How... how did he... not know this already? Is the Shanghai enclave under a rock.

"Oh! Why did they do that?"

"--Because they were Imperialist?"

"Oh. Well, that sucks. --They got better really quickly, didn't they?"

"N-no? --Yes? --I guess?" There is no way she is going to adequately explain World War 2, or the current political situation.

"Because we-- well, mostly Chang'an-- helped Tokyo enclave rebuild after the firebombing and that's why China and Japan get along really well."

This explains some deeply weird dynamics she has noticed. "That's not-- really true outside of the enclaves?"

"That's weird."

"--They invaded and killed a bunch of people? It's not a surprise the countries don't really like each other?"

"Oh, I guess that's true, Tokyo enclave didn't invade Chang'an enclave."

"Do enclaves invade each other?"

"Uh, not really-- I mean, you can fight a war if you really want to? That's what all the magical military history is about? But right now everyone's too busy trying to keep their kids alive."

"But you could fight a war over that."

"I think we're hoping to just build another school."

"Would a new school even help?"

"You know in the Anglosphere most of the indies get slots?"

"They do?"

"Yep. No testing. They just get in if they're good enough there's a chance they might actually make it. --It's worse in developing countries, Masozi had to travel to South Africa to get his slot because the entirety of Malawi doesn't get a single slot."

...oh dear. "Another school would be good "

"Shanghai enclave has been pushing for it if we don't get a fairer allocation of slots."

"With another school, a fairer allocation might not even matter. There could be slots for nearly everyone."

"And we could do easier classes-- or, at least, easier not-graduation-relevant classes-- since we'd know that it wasn't mostly safe from mals. Which the Scholomance's original designers did not."

"Just knowing that there would be mals would help a lot."

"And we can have a better school and not let the Anglos in."

"--I guess we can leave the danger school to the Anglos." It does feel mean though.