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This was an issue of trying to reconcile some of those details that seemed to contradict one another, and being unsure how reliable various characters' statements about the world were supposed to be. The developer's response clarified them to my satisfaction.

"Syl'anar has the biggest military and economy. (That military mostly consists of war droids)
The whole world relies on Syl'anar's production of goods, especially electronics from Nero Inc, largely produced by elves."

I remember characters saying those things. I just wasn't sure how reliable the information was supposed to be, given that they were all either from Syl'anar or the scions of industrial firms using Elf blood to make insanity prone androids. I assumed the MC's total ignorance of the place represented a counterpoint, just by its very possibility. Isn't he supposed to be from a country whose capital city alone has like a third the population of their entire continent? 

I thought the Syl'anareans might be a bit like Americans - important, but nowhere near as important as they think they are. And prone to insularity.

"Syl'anar is very pro human immigration, and will incentivize that through discounts on elves, making Syl'anar the best place in the world to start a business."

I know, I'm trying to reconcile that with the apparent lack of awareness of Elven slavery in the outside world. I assume those ads play somewhere other than in-flight entertainment on Air-Sylanar blimps. 

"Elves are not allowed to leave Syl'anar."

Slaves are never allowed to leave wherever they are. I thought the issue was Elves having nowhere to seek asylum. 

Anyway, now that I know that's actually Canon, not just unreliable character perspectives, my questions are answered. If they're that militarily potent and central to the world economy, they definitely have the clout to pressure for the return of escapees. 

I've played this through twice now, the second time largely for the plot, and there's a worldbuilding issue I'm still confused by. Is Syl'anar supposed to be a global economic and tech powerhouse, or an isolationist hermit-empire? They have ads advertising discounted elf-slaves for emigrants, yet the rest of the world seems to be almost totally ignorant of the practice. Does no one offer Elves asylum because Syl'anar's so mighty they don't dare, or because it's too obscure and weak to have any geo-strategic rivals who'd bother? 

That's really the only false note, and the general lack of foreign public opinion on the issue. The MC obviously has to start as a naif for the plot to function, I'm not sure how one might reconcile that. Still,  otherwise the world hangs together better than most fantasy novel series' I've read.

Wow. You sure are one finicky pervert. I've known neurotic housecats who were less particular. 

Then the majority of your fans are goddamn idiots. You should make the Penny game instead and get some new, better ones.