"They can stun people. The formal rule about police violence for consortium membership is that police have to wear cameras, there has to be judicial oversight of every single police use of force, excessive use of force by the police must be prosecuted as assault or if relevant as murder, the state has to pay for the medical expenses or if necessary the resurrection of anyone harmed by their police, and if incident rates exceed three per million citizens per a length of time approximately one of your seasons that triggers sanctions. In Endorë it doesn't come up because no one has suffered injuries from a confrontation with the police in decades."

"This sounds a little too good to be true, I hope you realize."

"We can take people for visits if you'd like."

"That'd help."

"Do you have any ideas about what else might help?"

"Do you have a way to stop the authorities if they decide to go ahead and wipe us out?"

"Tapa's authorities? Several. And if people died before we found out about it we'd resurrect them."

"How does that work?"

"Resurrection? The reason our society is so rich is because we know a world of aliens who can create arbitrary matter - so, anything that you can describe reasonably well and that is material in nature. This ability of theirs doesn't work on people - which is probably a good thing, because some of them might make people for personal amusement. Instead if they try to make a person they get someone who looks normal but is brain-dead. And we have some other, separate people who can wake those people up with all of their memories. if you know someone who died and you want to witness a resurrection I can arrange that."

"I'm forty, I know plenty of dead people. We'd be here all day."

"They do thousands in a batch, but I don't know that bringing back a lot of dead reds before we have anywhere to put them is a good idea. Usually people settle in and they have an arbitrary-matter alien make them an exact copy of their old friend's house and then they apply for a resurrection once they have friends and family and somewhere for the person to go."

"You have enough space for this many people?"

"The whole population of reds on your world is like 65million. That's a lot more than the population of my country but it's not really that many in the grand scheme of things, and we colonize new worlds whenever we start to feel like we're getting crowded."

"I don't think you'll have much trouble selling all this to most people if it's real, you'll have some holdouts who like their work or have non-red friends on the Internet or something. It'd help if you could get on our Internet from there."

"It would for complicated reasons be easy to check your Internet from Endorë but not vice-versa, so their friends couldn't hear from them as easily. We still have medical dissections, even if people don't die enough to sustain a funeral industry, and I'm sure some people could keep their jobs."

"Their line of work is different from their job."

"Okay. If most reds leave and the ones who remain vote in favor of the existing legal system so Tapa can join as a member, I suppose they might be all right with that?"

"I don't think even the holdouts would tend to vote for what we get if we could vote."

"Okay. I need to clear this with my superiors, but what I'm inclined to do is take anybody who'd like to go to Endorë to see that we're serious and able to offer this, then let you as a community hold a vote, maybe with the threshold at like 80%, on whether to give Tapa robots and thereby secure their cooperation in arranging for you all to emigrate."

"I can only speak for my neighborhood. There's some of us everywhere."

"Yeah. We'll do it country-by-country. The robots we're placing can't be reverse-engineered, so we don't have to worry that if we've given it out anywhere everyone everywhere has to be prepared to evacuate."

"You do if somebody thinks they could be reverse-engineered. I also can't speak for reds in other Tapai cities, or the rural ones."

"One hopes they would try to reverse-engineer them first. What's the best way to contact the other reds?"

"There's some online groups. Won't get you complete coverage, some of the rurals don't get online much."

"Can you send me links?"