He can't see why anyone would want membership anyway. They get eligible for humanitarian aid and better influences and they can emigrate?

Well, some of them don't have the tech level to actually use warp, and the Federation limits aid to organizations that don't qualify for membership and aren't on the road to same, but they would get better influences and could travel, potentially to reside elsewhere.

Why does the Federation limit aid to organizations that don't qualify for membership, exactly?

They are post scarcity but not like profligately post-scarcity so they have to prioritize.

He exchanges emails with Kantil and spies on the neighbors and keeps a suspicious eye out for his country's new blues.

And Fannar has fun with stimulants and spellcharts but can't get anything that'd be amazingly useful to smuggle to alts.

And an Anrikni purple reports that his coworker has blue eyebrows.

Being blue isn't illegal but being blue before you came here is. He has a girlfriend look the guy up.

Well, apparently he's using a fake name, or something, because Baravi doesn't remember having him, but Telkam's girlfriend does not need to confine herself to official records. Here's his birth certificate in the Free State of Oahk. Blue.

Telkam tells the president that he is deporting an Oahkar blue for breaking the rule about not having previously been blue.

She sighs.

"You know how to summon, you can make your own island countries with whatever rules you want if you don't like these ones."

"I didn't say anything."

Telkam shows up at the guy's work and hands him a plane ticket. "Hi. I don't want you in my country. You have two days to leave. Okay?"

Guy looks up from a flowerbed. "- why?"

"This country isn't for blues. If you don't like the place where you started, fine, there are a bunch of colony planets accepting immigrants."

"...my hair's purple."

"I don't think we were unclear about the rules."

"Look, I really can't go back. I'm just gardening, here, I'm not - blue-ing -"

"You don't have to go back, you hafta go away."

"There's nowhere else I can go."

"There are five different places taking immigrants."

"And I can't go there."

"I'm sure they're taking gardeners too. You need a week, you can have a week. But there are people this place exists to keep safe and you are not one of them, and there are laws and you are not following them."

"This is the only place the assassins after my family might not look."