It might be hard to do more than that without knowing how pocket dimensions form.

Yeah. And today there is at least some conservation effort to preserve various magic things, including magic people. It used to be that only stormlords and witch-queens cared about that. Which might become relevant in the near future when I have to defend the existence of certain magic people.

Conservationists don't usually win out, here.

I can't say that they're popular back home. Do you think it's going to be too hard to push for the preservation of magical people in general? I think there is value to it by itself, but I was also thinking that... If the magical alien from a culture with a documented history of magical conservationism pushes for the preservation of every person, then it stands out less than just being outspoken against the red genocide.

I think 'made people get rights' will be uncontroversial. 'Don't kill your reds - well. You've got to make it more convenient not to, people just don't apply their principles to reds.

I'm noticing the theme! I've been thinking in ways that the 'give reds a dimension' could fail and improved upon.

Got anything?

There is a factor that I'm calling "failure of distribution". Which is when it's not actually a good idea to give dimensions to a country. Could be that they're too war-like, corrupt, irresponsible, otherwise untrustworthy, or even just too terrible to their reds for us to trust them with a red dimension. We might not be able to find another you in a country or suitable replacement. This hinders making convenient not to kill reds because we can't bribe them as easily. "Failure of permanency" is when we can't expect that the red dimension solution to last for the long term. Once rotation or robots are too convenient these countries might decide to invade the reds dimensions and decontaminate them or use them for landfill. Simply because they have something to gain from it and their dreamshapers could just open portals to throw incendiary bombs while the reds can't fight back. And both failures correlate with how terrible the treatment of reds is in a given country. There is also a subcategory to the last one, that I don't have a better name besides "failure of desire", which is basically what you get when the foreign Isels get dimensions that are too nice and the countries might want them just for their own sake.

My ideas to address this:

Instead of giving countries a red dimension inside their borders we buy space on the moon, the ocean, unused land or even just use actual space and grow one or more red dimensions there (space stations should be a thing I can do). The important bit is to make the pocket dimension not intersect with any existing countries or only intersect with countries that we really trust. It will become a international red dimension of sorts. Downside that it requires various levels of international cooperation and actually transition to a non-red society.

Instead of giving countries a permanent red dimension, give them a transitional red dimension, places for the purpose of housing reds temporarily until their governments turn on them. This could be a backup plan, maybe not even one that the local government is aware of if we can pull that off (high risk, I know). The reds could be transported somewhere else, like the international red dimension above.

Influence international pollution policy (and pocket dimension policy) to make red dimensions really off limits. Contact/Portals to these dimensions are a matter of international law and discouraged beyond the minimal necessary and cause of execution. Count these dimensions as impossible to decontaminate or put heavy costs on their decontamination. Plays heavily on pollution hysteria, which I don't like, makes less likely that people will believe that reds can become clean.

Use the "portals not in contact with my dimension are hard to displace" trick to place a lot of portals in the pocket dimension, none of which can open nor are meant to be open. They are there purely so another dreamshaper can't open their own portals. Fails because they can kill the red dimension dreamshaper and organize something that requires less portals. People are likely to feel uneasy with the existence of so many portals around even if they never open.

If the foreign Isels produce dimensions that are too convenient, we can try to find a replacement for that country or instruct them to downplay the convenience of their dimensions, sell their artifacts. Obviously runs on the problem that we would need to be lucky enough to find another you in those places. The foreign Isel could also switch to real-estate and funnel money to red charities.

Yeah, there are a bunch of countries that shouldn't have dreamshaping at all. And lots of people who'd hand over the red dimension as soon as anyone bid money for it. Might work to have temporary red dimensions and evacuate the reds from them, but how do you evacuate people to a moon dimension? Somewhere in the middle of the ocean might be better. I don't know that you'll find many people who you trust with a dimension and who'll want to devote it to reds. 

Could we fill the red dimensions with portals to other red dimensions, once we've got them? No one would be stressed by that and if they were really big portals and blocked the formation of new ones they might suffice.

It wouldn't be easy to evacuate reds to a moon dimension or similar, I admit. We could evacuate them somewhere else first and then to the moon. The main advantage of a moon dimension is making it harder to invade when there is so much more land Amenta-side.

Maybe I could roll out pocket dimensions much more sparingly and conditional of good behavior? I'm going to need to do this anyway and gives us time to improve on our solutions and evaluate on performances.

Portals between red dimensions works, requires finding extra dreamshapers, but at least we could sell the idea as "makes it extra unlikely for reds to pollute anything".

(I've been wondering the merits of offering/selling my own pocket dimension to some less trustworthy places. Sounds like a potential mess.)

The places I'm worried about are mostly the places that can't cooperate even for the sake of getting space for their children.

What do you expect to go wrong with having trustworthy people sell space in fragile or uncooperative places?

Wow. I'm human and even I think that failure of cooperation is too awful.

I don't think I can escape my decisions being political (there is a sense where I should capitalize on that). In my retinue the only dreamshapers are myself and Trevor (and we fear his dimension might bite). Dana kind of wants one but wants to do tourism first and we can't count on hers. And a single dreamshaper isn't the best solution to population pressure in a single country, much less how many bad places are there. I think there are easier ways to make money and this one invites extra scrutiny. The dimension could still be used for illegal or bad activities. I could get a backlash from said activities. I can't help but think that having a bit of pocket dimension somewhere is only likely to be a reminder to the general population that they are not getting a lot of pocket dimensions which I doubt is the best way to improve quality of life in those places.

Dunno, one dreamshaper in one year could double the land area of some small places. But you and Trevor's dimensions aren't ideal candidates, yeah.

Yeah. Depends how international law shakes out too. How is your work going?

The reds are mostly moved out. Couple outlying areas I haven't been able to integrate with everything else yet. 

Okay. Good luck. And call me if you need anything.

Will do!

You're welcome!

Time to plan the official public announcement! What are the recommendations on that front? Felix doesn't want the full story of what happened during the time of his arrival (for obvious reasons), but should they address it at all?

Should they reveal that Felix is the only actual not-born-on-Amenta alien? That he is stranded here?

And should they publicly address the existence of created people?

He recommends they not address the thing when they arrived because it would let people infer there is one single dreamshard which confers the powers, which it'd be better to leave ambiguous. It makes sense to explain among the risks of pocket dimensions that they can create people.

Mostly, Felix is curious if they should provide a better explanation to the cop attack than letting people think "aliens are weird."

Any problem if Dana comes out as the reason why various Anitami citizens were vetted?

I'm not sure people will believe you but it doesn't seem strategically necessary as a secret. The cops all survived, I don't think anyone'll think much of it if attention isn't drawn to it.

Okay, fair enough. Obscurity and silence on the whole incident. Not explaining where Trevor came from besides "immortality glitch" if it ever comes up.

 They won't elaborate on how dreamshaping is granted besides "We have it and reserve the right to share as we wish to do so. But we definitely wish to do so." Not talking about moving the operation to the moon. The moon trip can be explained as a means to help terraforming by siphoning air and water from pocket dimensions. Be vague about future plans.

Address that they are concerned about dreamshaping misuse and that countries have to clear a high bar of trust before receiving dreamshapers. And that they want to establish various international laws related to pocket dimensions and magic, create the "Dream Police" and the oversight committee for defensive uses of dreamshaping in a war.

Address that sudden people creation is a valid risk of dreamshaping granting. So is the possibility of other weird magical effects. Make it clear that the treatment of created people and magical people is a concern during selection and a strong disqualifier if the countries can't reassure these people's well-being. So is the misuse of pocket dimension magic.

Reveal that they're very immortal on top of very powerful and that Anitam got so many dreamshapers so fast because they created Dana, who vouched for the new dreamshapers. Make it clear that they have no plan to repeat the Dana trick again, and because of this, other countries are not going to receive all their dreamshapers at once. This is also to ensure good behavior and see how the world adapts.