She replaces the tires.

Aitim have we considered conquering Calado we'd be doing them a favor.

Ah huh. Hundred thousand people dead and half a million committed to occupation and pacification, if all goes well. Were you planning to handpick which blues we kill or just wipe the slate clean of them? Or there's Oahk style, I suppose. 

I know I know but have you considered as a counterargument: the entire nation of Calado.

Did police or mental health services find the lady?

She popped up again in another city. She was trying to hug reds so they'd be arrested and not sent to Miolee. Mental health got her.

And no reds are in trouble?

The ones she hugged are. You can't just let mad purples hug you.

How in the world do you prevent mad purples from hugging you?

Running away! Possibly telling them you are not going to Miolee after all! Calling mental health services!

All of those sound like things that are hard to do fast enough to prevent someone hellbent on touching you from touching you! Send them to Miolee.

They are guilty of pollution violation. Super guilty.

Then change the sentence for that to exile and send them to Miolee.

Exile hasn't been a usable sentence in forty years, there's nowhere to go. Even before that it was never for reds.

But on this occasion there is somewhere to go, and they're trying to avoid riots, and murdering reds who have done nothing wrong is the kind of thing that causes riots, so perhaps one of the people who have been Thwarting So Many Things can thwart this and get them sent the fuck to Miolee.

Somebody thwarts it. The reds are rushed to the border.

Isel likes that person and they are at the top of the list to go talk with aliens and also not on the list to get shot if Anitam conquers Calado not that she shares this last bit.

Crazy purple gets on TV. There is public concern! Is Miolee a hellhole? Is it ethical to buy things from there? People attempt to organize boycotts.

Maybe the TV people could go to Miolee and do some investigative journalism. 

You could probably do it with a smaller occupying force than that, she writes Aitim.

Nope that's the heuristic, if you don't leave enough people there are always problems later. You can skimp a bit if you're just shooting everyone who steps out of line, is that what you want?

I'm just venting. Mostly. 

Are they having trouble recruiting enough plumbers.

A little. The amount of money the red plumbers were charging varied a lot town to town, so some places they're having trouble finding purples who'll put up with the lower wage.

Well, if you can't find people at a given wage you raise the wage, that is how wages work.

But why are they so different?

Why are the wages different city to city? She'll look into that. She asks the reds.

Oh, the reds know that one. In permission based cultures red child permissions are allocated by the social workers. Some of the social workers were lazy, corrupt, or responsive to pleading, and just sold some or all of them; reds don't have a lot of control over how much money they make, but it's not zero, and in neighborhoods where money was flowing out to the corrupt social workers like that they schemed a lot harder to get cash.

...Aitim pleeeeeeeease?