It's a family dinner. They've taken another pound or so of meat out of stasis, in five little pieces browned and covered in salt, still hot from when it was seared two months ago. There's a big pot of oatmeal and a salad and bowls and spoons for people to serve themselves. The people are just sitting down - a middle-aged couple, a strikingly handsome man with very dark skin, a young woman whose eyes are focused on something not in front of her, and a girl just launching into a monologue. They're really not expecting company.
"Oh my god, for serious? My country sometimes kills babies for population control reasons but at least nobody EATS THEM."
"...Are the color-changing people that only drink furry people’s blood going to bother you too?"
"I guess it's okay if it doesn't kill them except if it's slaves and then it's just bad for slavery reasons."
"...well we used to, and gradually people noticed it was horrible and wanted to stop having it, and countries took different amounts of time to stop having it but eventually it was all of them? Sometimes it was like - they'd stop letting new people be enslaved and the old slaves would just have to get old and die or whatever, sometimes they'd free them all."
"I don't really know more, I didn't get a lot of history lessons and I don't think anybody ever wrote a concept album about the end of slavery! Which is a weird omission now I think about it."
"They... do... crimes... like, uh, murder or theft or rape or arson or... vandalism, or... posting sensitive content online during a war...? oh, or pollution violations, or major noise complaints, or... there are lots of crimes."
"I think for regular people the capital crimes in my country are aggravated rape, murder, aggravated pollution violation, treason, uh... I don't actually know if that's all of them because for reds the main capital crime is coming to the attention of the police. You know, uh, metaphorically."
"I dunno, this is the first one I've been to besides Tapa. I never heard about a country and went 'wow that sounds so much better in every way'."
"Yes but I don't know a list of all the things I like in advance of ever hearing about them."