She's not going to just  take this guy's word for it about what things are like in Taldor, but fucked up if true. "In Lastwall when someone's an idiot they just get a job that's easy enough they can do it and nobody kills anybody about it. Tetula, do you know what they do in the River Kingdoms?"

"I think being a powerful person in the River Kingdoms is safer than being at the Worldwound if you're clever, but if you're not as clever as you think you are you're probably going to die in the next revolution."

"That just sounds like a mess." Is it in fact the case that most places suck. Otari didn't seem to suck that much, and Tetula and Chrisor are both here in some sense because their homelands sucked, so probably not. "Too bad we don't have an Abadaran in here; they probably know all kinds of things about how to incentivize people to do jobs they'll be good at."

"I think the problem is that some people think they'd be happier if they could boss people around, so they try to boss people around whether or not they have any reason to think they'd be any good at it. Ideally you'd tell people that it won't make them happy, but if people reliably did things that made them happy and not things that would make them miserable we'd have at least a tenth of the problems in Golarion solved."