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There are a lot of Amentan countries. Vanda Nossëo representatives are dispatched to all of them. These Elves (two with black hair, one with silver) take a shuttle down from the lightleaper to a country called Calado, and radio ahead to request permission to land at a elegant modern spaceport.
okay by comparison Voa and Tapa look like thriving modern democracies
She's pretty sure most clean Amentans hate reds or don't think about them at all. She doesn't know much about any other species. Rivik is warm so she's used to that. She's never heard of a universal basic income. Rural would be... different. They've never voted before and she doesn't know what kinds of voting are best.
Universal basic income is when the government gives everybody money every month no matter what. It's popular.
It's usually funded out of taxes or with support from Vanda Nossëo, which has absurd amounts of money because of selling planets and resurrections and immortality and miscellaneous other magical things. Lots of places find that they can afford it just off the savings from not having a standing army anymore and having healthcare cheaper because of magic.
Kvina didn't do very well in math but she doesn't understand how you can give everyone money for free and then pay for that out of taxes.
...yeah, or own a big company or a lot of land or a lot of investments, or they're a teleporter or healer or telekinetic and get outrageous pay for their in-demand skills.
Some people do that but lots of people like to do things. ...also the free money is not enough money to afford most fancy magic stuff or to afford to travel all the time to cool remote alien resorts, and on planets that aren't as nice as Casentar it's not even enough for immortality or resurrection.
Yeah. There should be enough of that to go around and here there is enough of that to go around but not everywhere.
"Are there things you've wanted to do that weren't an option because of Rivik's oppression of reds?"
"Well, apparently Amentans will be really upset if we let reds go everywhere, but most people don't care how Amentans feel about it."
"They couldn't do anything. Usually it's wrong to do something that's against some society's deeply held beliefs but most societies don't have a deeply held belief that other people getting rights would be the worst thing in history."