"Here there's a lot of worry that if anyone could run for office someone'd win off just the purple vote and a platform of 'purple credits are free! purple taxes will be zero!'"

"Are blue credits free and blue taxes zero?"

"Hardly. But you can't win with just the blue vote."

"I think you perhaps misestimate how a purple who wanted to and managed to run for office would act. I am also not sure why taxes change depending on caste as opposed to just things like income or location or any other things that don't intrinsically depend on caste."

"Oh, different costs of living and different sorts of things we might want to have credits and subsidies for."

"But caste is merely a proxy for things like costs of living, it sounds like it would be strictly more efficient to adjust tax policy according to these things directly."

"It'd be less predictable and lots more complicated for a pretty small return to accuracy, I expect."

"Perhaps. In any case I am just idly musing, we don't expect nor want to really directly influence your policies."

"We appreciate that. When we have more planets some of them can try various liberal experiments and everyone will doubtless watch and learn."

"And we wish you the best of luck in that."

"What kind of results from this conference would you be happy with?"

"I'm not sure what results are achievable. Reds transitioning peacefully to other places rather than dying, widespread knowledge of magic, widespread agelessness and health, access to as many planets as you can have by everyone, those are the concrete goals we'd like this to advance."

"You didn't mention reds. Saving that for later?"

"I've been trying not to draw too much attention to them, in hopes the processes already in motion to get rid of them stop as people focus on magic, so yes."

"I assume magic doesn't conveniently replace them?"

"Not conveniently but we've mentioned the possibility of using it to completely replace all the matter in someone's body, there's nothing in principle stopping it from being developed in the direction of making pollution no longer a concern of typically red jobs."

"Magically vanishing bodies and garbage and sewage would be good but should come after reds are handled."

"Yes, Sadai is taking this into consideration when designing the new school of sorcery, this sort of thing will be regrettably harder to develop."

"What a shame."

"It truly is. What results are achievable, here?"

"Depends on how straightforward the planets turn out to be."

"I've described the procedure to you, it really is just a matter of time and luck."

"I realize. But if one were found soon, as proof of concept, in some country equipped to handle it appropriately, that would make a tremendous difference."

"Regardless of what we do, on expectation it will take at the very least a few months, so I'm not sure how the result of this conference could depend on that."

"Oh, this I am expecting to result short-term in everyone calling everyone they know and you getting your lists of greens. Everything else is longer-term than that."