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Merrin had never previously considered that this would be weird! Now she's pretty sure that she is missing something really basic about Cheliax, or all of Golarion, or - maybe it's something to do with the differential in average intelligence except it's not immediately obvious to her why it would be related to that... 

"I mean, I'm not a criminal and I've never actually talked to anyone who'd made a confidential confession? I think the main deliberate incentive is that if you're later caught in a crime or accused of one, and they can go back and see that you made a confidential report before that happened, the courts will judge the crime slightly less severely." And obviously making the confession doesn't change the likelihood of being caught in any way because confidential. Merrin considers this too obvious to even have to specify. 

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So -

- is she misreading this -

- the Keepers managed to persuade the entire population that the government was so trustworthy that if people committed any crimes they could file a confidential report of that in exchange for reduced punishments if they got caught?


This is a way that Abrogail Thrune would never have imagined you could keep control of a country.  Just.  Literally never have imagined it.  She is learning so much right now.

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"Do people ever file confidential confessions about - one of their friends having committed a crime?"

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"What?" Merrin is genuinely startled and upset. That's terrible! Who would do that? Why would the government have a department to enable people to do that???

"...Um. No. I - feel like I explained something badly if that seems like the same kind of thing? It's not -" nice, but that feels like it's not actually explaining the underlying thing, here, "- that's not cooperative, it's not - wanting to act in good faith. I think almost no one would want to do that and Civilization really really wouldn't want to encourage the people who for some reason do." 

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"Yeah, I guess that wouldn't be nice - sorry, it's not a custom we have here and I wasn't quite sure what the custom was."

 

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"- Yeah, that makes sense." Merrin...isn't sure it does? But she is sure that this conversation got way less cheerful than she was aiming for and also got even more tangential to what she's curious about, and it feels like maybe there is social awkwardness happening and she would prefer less of that? 

What are the questions that she's most desperately curious about and also make sense to ask of a student rather than a topic expert? 

"- I'm curious what growing up in Cheliax was like for you? Just - what was school like, what were your parents like, how old were you when you knew you were going to be a wizard - do you live on your own now, I'm not sure what age most people here move out of their parents' homes - what do students do for fun with each other -?"

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