# Cost of a citizenship? **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [January 2, 2024, 6:00pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/cost-of-a-citizenship/662 "2024-01-02T18:00:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![january1may](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@january1may](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/u/january1may)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2024, 7:07am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/cost-of-a-citizenship/662/6 "2024-01-04T07:07:29Z")
> [@Maximilian\_Crichton](#): > > [Trope-a-Day: Good Is Not Nice | The Associated Worlds](https://eldraeverse.com/2014/05/27/trope-a-day-good-is-not-nice/) > > They do do something like charity, but they expect something out of you for the donation they have given. …Oh. I’ve missed that part, then. (I actually recall reading it at some reasonably-recent point but must have forgotten.) I guess this means the _really_ blatantly meritorious cases (and/or the most blatantly poverty-trap ones, and/or the ones that look most like the local governments are actively conspiring against them) would get offers to the effect of “OK, you’re clearly not getting _that_ far out on your own before you accidentally starve or something and even if it’s not _that_ bad we don’t want to just wait until you get there by sheer luck alone, so we’ll try to get you some money under a nice short, oh let’s say 144-year loan, and hopefully you repay that there’d be serious trouble for you if you don’t”. Maybe some of the less clear cases get similar offers but with slightly harsher terms. …there might also be quite a few _other_ lolrandom (by Earth standards) projects getting sponsorship offers with similar loan setups, but that’s more of a [Post-Contact Hilarity](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/post-contact-hilarity/459) matter. --- _[View the full topic](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/cost-of-a-citizenship/662)._