Katani Ehal has dandelion-yellow hair showing half an inch of spring green roots and is explaining her choice of job name (it means "standard") and its potential relevance to the project. "If some country, say Tarolee, were transporting infectious pathogen bioweapons so someone else could study them it would be every non-landlocked country's problem if they dumped them in the water instead. Reds aren't literally infectious even before they're cleaned, mercifully enough - imagine if it were airborne - but there's a sort of infection of the memetic commons that Olvala started and Biyan exacerbated and every subsequent fiasco has worsened from there, and if it's not kept in good shape a lot of our neighbors will be ankle deep in filth and if they're willing to pay us to make sure that they don't catch it I'm all for it."

Yes he wants her on the committee. 

Well then he can have her.

And everyone else can be competent and accuracy-minded and a couple of them even know ex-reds and this can be proposed to other countries as taking the judgment out of Miolee's hands and to Miolee as a necessary step if they don't want every dispute escalating to the brink of war.

Miolee grumbles and agrees.

He restructures some regulatory committees. He invites proposals for criminal justice reform. He misses Notelle's first steps but gets the video and is home for Alatana's.

It should be easier for witnesses and people who know involved parties to submit evidence. Judges should have to justify not examining pieces of evidence they get. Cops on duty or using their cop status off duty should be subject to stricter rules. Cops should be armed less often. The people who show up for mental health nuisance calls need better training.

Some of these things are tractable!

Eventually one country agrees to arbitration. The committee recommends thoroughly covering all transit intended for taking reds to the harbor and the harbor itself with cameras and making sure all security personnel are easily identifiable on camera from most angles.

(Voa is 1/5 red free.)

Recommendations are forwarded with good wishes to the country attempting it. He makes sure a good translation of the committee's work is available online in the local language for their reds to see.

The committee is so particular about things! The country in question grumbles but festoons everywhere with cameras. Reds train purples. Reds make a very well documented trip to the harbor and get on Mioleen boats and sail away unharmed. The country's money is returned in full.

Great.

Miolee is delighted! They write 48 more verses of their national anthem, which now stands (if you count all the languages, which have different verses) at 377.

His father knows them all! He personally thinks it's a bit much. Suggests to the ambassador that the ambassador suggest Miolee arrange for Anitam blues and anyone else who might prospectively protect them to have very profitable business interests there. "I am sure they'll resent the necessity but it'd do wonders for my peace of mind to have colleagues with an opinion about the place beyond 'if someone kidnapped my children they would never get away with it'."

"They're trying, is there anything they should be doing that they don't know to do besides negligible corporate taxes -?"

"Uh, hmmm," - he writes some things down - "these are companies in which colleagues of mine serve on the board or are major stakeholders, maybe have someone lobby them individually to open up Mioleen operations, ask them what laws they'd want or what labor would need to be available - hiring a good Anitami lobbyist might go better than having a known ex-red do it I can perhaps recommend you some people -"

The ambassador nods.

"I'll email you." And he does.

Miolee hires the lobbyist recommended. They dangle negligible tax rates at people; they want investment and infrastructure more than cash and they can get cash for local labor anyway.

People want permissive labor laws so they can keep the factories running full time and in one case to be allowed to use a manufacturing chemical that's super useful but banned for causing birth defects and a bigger port built for shipping and to be allowed to fine workers for failing to show and low turnover.

Some people might want to be nocturnal, that's fine. The chemical is okay if they hire people who are already past the age of 20 and put it all the way over there. Miolee would love a bigger port! You definitely can't fine them more than you were going to pay them and if they get to a point where it's not worth it to show up late that's your problem but you can dock them for missed hours. Turnover is between you and your workforce.

The company that wanted the chemical goes for it. The one that wanted the port doesn't want to pay for the port. A few all-hours factories go up. 

Some people are fine with being nocturnal. Miolee will get back to the one that wants the port once they have the bigger port for unrelated reasons.

"It's possibly worth buying two specific people multimillion ni Mioleen portfolios as presents but I don't know how pressed they are for money."

"They're - juggling. They have to start paying back child credits in a few years and they think that'll be good for the economy eventually but it means they can't tie much up right now..."