okay by comparison Voa and Tapa look like thriving modern democracies
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"Great. I'm excited for you."

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Amentan nations join up.

They have some resurrections even after bargaining some away for colony planets, and spend them.

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They have to pick a single facility to save time for the in-extraordinary-demand resurrection staff. Sleeping resurrected people to be awakened get delivered there. A magical girl comes by to wake them.

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Relatives stand by to tell them things and escort them home.

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Magical girl listens to music and beams to herself and does the whole batch and vanishes with a pop.

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And he reaches out to some demons who do terraforming and ask what they could do with an appropriate variety of planets at the right distance from their suns in Revelation.

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They can do all kinds of marvelous things!

 

Not all the countries of Amenta are signing on. Rivik, for example, is a holdout.

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That's fine. No one really wants there to be more Rivikni anyway. (They don't say that in so many words).

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Well, some Rivikni are moving out of Rivik into their neighbors who are suddenly taking immigrants, there's that.

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Maybe the cultural influences will be good for them.

Shuttles once per hour are free; you have to pay for more frequent shuttle service than that, or for a shuttleport past the first one.

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Calado has them more often! For some reason! Some impatient people go take the Calador bus.

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Calado's bus is a single bus and getting kind of full but it does run continuously. Bus guy is making tons of money.

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People are confused about why Calado has this constant bus. Did they pay for it?

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Bus guy just felt bad for people in Calado. He is paying road use tolls, actually, but comes out ahead what with people buying bus tickets.

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...huh. Well, if there's that much demand for frequent service people will be able to get the money scraped up.

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Shuttles pop about between Amentan countries and their shiny new colony planets, which are mostly land except for near the equator. Shuttles to Elendil are every ten minutes in most places. Bus guy gets a bigger bus. 

 

Companies hire local consultants on the hair color thing and publish hiring listings which observe that local nondiscrimination law prohibits taking into consideration factors such as caste, ethnic group, religion or national origin in hiring. But for the convenience of Amentans, jobs can be sorted by the Amentan caste with which that sort of work would traditionally be associated.  

Ambassadorial and diplomatic work, trade negotiations, infrastructure development (especially seeking local consultants who could work with a municipality to develop functional public transit), serving on oversight councils in polities that have merited extra oversight recently for some reason...Portal research, wizardry research, new planet research, magic music development, lecturer position at these hundred universities scattered across sixty-two planets...compliance monitoring, prioritization monitoring and management, artifact design, policy and trade and taxation and allocation work...internal security, investigative work, rapid response teams in dangerous situations...healing, teaching pre-industrial aliens medicine, divine magic research and manufacture work, social workers, community outreach work, counselors, child support services...magic item manufacture, shuttle transit, aid shipments and delivery and distribution, teaching pre-industrial aliens construction and manufacturing and infrastructure and electrical work...

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Amentans mostly obey the caste suggestions.

Mostly.

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The hiring manager for the oversight councils thing has silvery fur and a bone spur on the top of his skull that flushes pink when he's worked up and barely seems to register whether the people in the room have Amentan-traditional hair colors. "All right, I read all your applications and you're here because they looked great, except those of you who speak Valtaz should know that the grammar came through kooky and someone should twiddle with your Allspeak settings. Welcome to oversight and monitoring. We have half a million employees, we work in six hundred different polities, and our job is to ensure that every single election, every single state use-of-force incident, every single violation of membership terms and every single complaint are meticulously and transparently monitored, evaluated appropriately, and escalated whenever that's warranted. You with the lavender hair, do you have a question."

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"Is there separate per-polity training?"

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"First four months in a new place you're shadowing someone who's been there a while. Average length on an assignment is six standard years but that's misleading, most people either request a transfer before training is out or they stay a real while. People transfer for culture fit, mostly, though there are a few places we have trouble staffing because of the weather."

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Lavender hair doesn't have another question.

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They go through example investigations and conduct standards and transparency rules and how to report attempts at bribery or intimidation. Bone spur occasionally pinkens at particularly upsetting case studies. Does anyone else have questions?

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Nope.

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Amentans get assigned to shadow observers. Amentans get taught magic (which won't work on their colony planets, the hiring alien explains with annoyance, it's in the next dimension over.) Amentans can trade in more conventional goods. Amentans can get tourists once agreements for that are negotiated (everyone else feels very strongly that Amentans had better not execute random tourists for drunkenly peeing on the side of a building or something.)

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...aliens pee on buildings????

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